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[ih] Early Internet history
On 7/6/18 5:09 AM, Scott O. Bradner wrote:
>
>> On Jul 6, 2018, at 12:45 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net> wrote:
>>
> ?
>
>> And, I believe that both USENET (or at least UUCP) and BITNET predated
>> the TCP/IP cutover by a couple of years. They were both decentralized
>> and "operated independently but cooperatively by more than one
>> organization."
> TCP/IP - developed in mid 1970s
> BITNET - founded 1981 by Ira Fuchs
> USENET - established in 1980 by Tom Truscott
> (UUCP was the file copy protocol not the system)
> TCP/IP cutover - 1983
>
>
To Jack's question:? Does that count as "before the Internet?"
(Inquiring minds want to know!)
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