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Arguably when there was a inter-network link, not inter-host was when the internet was born. But really, like horses, there's no real implications one way or th
by rswail 6y ago
Arguably when there was a inter-network link, not inter-host was when the internet was born. But really, like horses, there's no real implications one way or the other.
Make it the start of the Unix epoch.
- gumby 6y agoThe early work (including this RFC) was done on 36-bit machines, and no unix machines would be on the net for more than half a decade (and it was at least another decade, and a conversion of the net to IP, before they were a significant number). So probably not an appropriate choice.