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How old is the Internet?
Is this true? or some sort of a joke?
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Posted 03 July 2008 - 09:45 AM
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Posted 03 July 2008 - 10:36 AM
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yea it could be. I found this from wikipedia:
"The first TCP/IP-wide area network was made operational by January 1, 1983 when all hosts on the ARPANET were switched over from the older NCP protocols to TCP/IP"
As for the network itself,
"The USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as ARPA, in February 1958 to regain a technological lead"
"The first TCP/IP-wide area network was made operational by January 1, 1983 when all hosts on the ARPANET were switched over from the older NCP protocols to TCP/IP"
As for the network itself,
"The USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as ARPA, in February 1958 to regain a technological lead"
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Posted 03 July 2008 - 10:54 AM
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Well, in 1991 (when I started college) the internet was alive and well, though the HTTP protocol wasn't really used much (if at all). That's 17 years ago (dang, I'm getting old). Considering the size of it at that time (global, almost all universities on it), I'd say it could easily have been 8 years old at the time.
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Posted 03 July 2008 - 10:56 AM
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So 17 years + 8 years that's 25 years old.
So maybe that is true... hmm interesting.
ARPANET is not considered as internet?
So maybe that is true... hmm interesting.
ARPANET is not considered as internet?
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Posted 03 July 2008 - 12:59 PM
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ARPANET is the internet in it's beginnings.
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Posted 03 July 2008 - 01:15 PM
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TcM said:
I found that really entertaining, I think it might not be a joke. Anyways fun thing to know :)
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Posted 03 July 2008 - 02:40 PM
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Yea well is it Thursday?
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Posted 04 July 2008 - 02:24 AM
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Posted 09 July 2008 - 04:32 AM
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I suppose it could be true, about 25 years the internet has been around. :o Not a long time. Wasn't ARPANET the first internet like? What I learned the internet was a way to connect universities across the United States together. Wow, it really did grow. The the internet has only been a part of my life for a few years actually.
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Posted 09 July 2008 - 07:29 AM
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Yeah, why doesn't the ARPANET count as internet? I mean, it was the first thing that started internet. Ok, as someone explained, the 'new' internet is using TCP/IP, but this is how old is the internet, now how old is TCP/IP.
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Posted 09 July 2008 - 09:02 AM
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Yeah TCP/IP is simply a protocol, shouldn't be considered the start of the internet. Although its standardization did increase the vastness of the internet.
