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On this day in 1983, the ARPANET network officially switched to using the TCP/IP protocol, effectively creating the Internet.

"January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other."

https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml

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Stefan Bohacek
"The 1983 deadline’s passing was anticlimactic, [Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol] recalls, considering how important TCP/IP became as an enabler for the internet."

https://www.theregister.com/2013/01/03/operational_internet_anniversary/

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yianiris hat dies geteilt

yianiris
15 years went by and two clowns Gore/Clinton spoke of the information superhighway as if they invented it and gave it to the world. Some local public libraries begun offering dial-up service at little cost, and suddenly the internet was outside military and academic walls. Most often it was a login shell to a unix system. Bitnet was on its final days and mosaic on html1 was magic.
Something like dillo today :)

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Dan Riley
those regional TCP/IP networks were interconnected through the NSFnet T3 backbone which, along with NCSA Mosaic, was funded by the High Performance Computing Act of 1991--aka the "Gore Bill". Clinton wasn't involved, but Gore certainly was.
yianiris
Yes and Sprint got a subsidy to connect the east coast with submerged fiber-optics

Special ships were built to lay cable (glass) in the bottom of the sea across ports and channels. I think DC to NY was the first branch.

University related people had internet at home though dialup before all this, those few that could handle using a VT100 emulation screen in dos and later win3/3.1

I think a 1200baud was the first such contraption I used.

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yianiris
Way before the Clinton campaign was conceived, certain federal agencies, research facilities, and most large universities, even outside the US were on the network. I remember using talk (an old unix utility) to speak live with people across the globe. It was exciting to have this luxury. We would use email to alert others of a meeting to chat. Bitnet had relays to tcp/ip network but talk/irc and such didn't work between nets.
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yianiris
The uk seemed to have had tcp.ip but their dns was reversed and something like umanchester.edu.uk would be uk.edu.umanchester Still connected through a single point relay between them and the world.

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D2
it’s massively ironic that you’re whinging (in a butthurt fashion) against Gore’s sponsorship and support in reply to a mention of Vint Cerf. Cerf credits Gore’s support and agile embrace of the potential of an internetwork. So, Cerf says it. Ive heard of him… uh, who are you again?
yianiris
Snap out of your illusion, all I said was that the functional network existed and was extensively used long before the clinton/gore duo acted if they were inventing something.

The fact that infrastructure wasn't existing for everyone to have access to it ... required public funding to fill the corporate pockets up, as USUAL

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D2
lol, careful not to fall off that high dudgeon.
yianiris
The dudgeon is tamed well, too old to misbehave ..
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Sören
actually, Vint Cerf defended Gore.
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