[TUHS] OT: Grace Hopper, Unix epoch, ARPAnet converted to TCP/IP

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Wed Jan 3 02:19:03 AEST 2018


On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 7:59 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

> it was _planned_ to happen at "00:01 (EST) 1 Jan 1983". Whether it did
> happen
> at that moment, or if in reality there was some variance, I don't know


​I don't remember it as being a huge event.   As Noel said most people had
cut over to TCP by then​.

People were much more spooked by Y2K a few years later.

Clem
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