[TUHS] OT: Grace Hopper, Unix epoch, ARPAnet converted to TCP/IP
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Mon Jan 1 08:51:57 AEST 2018
Some interesting historical stuff today...
We lost Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper USN (Retd) in 1992; there's not much
more than can be said about her, but I will mention that she received
(posthumously) the Presidential Medal of Honor in 2016.
As every Unix geek knows, today is the anniversary of The Epoch[tm] back
in 1970, and at least one nosey web site thinks that that is my birthdate
too...
And according to my notes, the ARPAnet got converted from NCP to TCP/IP in
1983; do any greybeards here have a more precise date?
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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