[TUHS] Happy birthday, Internet!

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Friday,  7 April 2017 at  7:13:36 +0200, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> writes:
>> The Internet (spelled with a capital "I", please, as it is a proper
>> noun) was born in 1969, when RFC-1 got published; it described the IMP
>> and ARPAnet.
>
> Actual data transmissions were first made on October 29 later that year.
> If my two-minute research checks out.

Yes, this was my date, too, though I call it 30 October (UTC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#ARPANET

Greg
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