Re: Offtopic: Internet is 30 years old Today!

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
2 Sep 1999 21:50:09 +0200

In article <cistron.Pine.BSF.3.96.990902103451.9379D-100000@hiway1.exit109.com>,
Michael Cunningham <malice@exit109.com> wrote:
>Just thought ya all might want to know,
>
>The Internet is 30 years old today!
>
>September 2nd is officially the 30th birthday of the Internet, being the
>day that the first packets were sent between the Sigma 7 mainframe that
>was the first internet node and its Honeywell based IMP (Internet Message
>Processor) at UCLA.

At what time? With the time difference etc, I wonder if I was born
_at that exact time_ even though it was a day later European time ;)
That would be extremely |<3\/\/|_

Mike.

-- 
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	-- Bill, "The Terrible Thunderlizards"


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