Xah Lee's Unixism

[Morten Reistad]

In article <opsdxecgt8pqzri1 at mjolner.upc.no>,
John Thingstad <john.thingstad at chello.no> wrote:
>On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 18:56:33 +0200, Morten Reistad  
><firstname at lastname.pr1v.n0> wrote:
>
>> In article <413c5b9c$0$19705$61fed72c at news.rcn.com>,
>>  <jmfbahciv at aol.com> wrote:
>> TCP/IP was launched in 1982, and the Internet (or the Arpanet, rather)
>> converted Jan 1st 1983; with final NCP service turned off everywhere
>> by mid march 1983.
>>
>> Tops20 has an IP package; but it was pretty rudimentary in version 4,
>> and not quite complete even by those standards even in version 7.
>>
>> .. mrr
>>
>>
>
>Internet was discovered long before this.
>(In 1965 a research project, by the Rand cooperation, for a network that
>could survive a nuclear attack. Sponsored by DARPA.

Since I am on a roll with timelines; just one off the top of my head : 

Project start     : 1964
First link        : 1969
Transatlantic     : 1972 (to Britain and Norway)
Congested         : 1976
TCP/IP            : 1983 (the effort started 1979) (sort of a 2.0 version)
First ISP         : 1983 (uunet, EUnet followed next year)
Nework Separation : 1983 (milnet broke out)
Large-scale design: 1987 (NSFnet, but still only T3/T1's)
Fully commercial  : 1991 (WIth the "CIX War")
Web launced       : 1992
Web got momentum  : 1994
Dotcom bubble     : 1999 (but it provided enough bandwith for the first time)
Dotcom burst      : 2001

>These is the real creators of the Internet technology. Not Unix hackers.)
>It was the realization of www (CERN) that spawned the movement toward the  
>Internet.
>So the year in question is about 1987.

In 1987 the Internet wasn't even commercial. You had to apply to get in.
We fought a bitter fight to break this open in 1990-1991. 

It was official policy of governements to stay with ITU (then CCITT)
protocols and OSI/whatever until the web was well deployed. This even
goes for the US government. 

-- mrr