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> What I was saying is that the US is where the internet got deployed The "Internet" as we know it was deployed as a research network in 1987, it was already

> What I was saying is that the US is where the internet got deployed The "Internet" as we know it was deployed as a research network in 1987, it was already connected to Europe research centers in 1988. That's why WWW was born at CERN that was one of the largest nodes of the times. The "user facing" Internet was deployed years later, globally in the west.

kragen 5y ago
"1987"? The first ARPANET link was active in 01969, and the ARPANET switched from NCP to TCP/IP on January 1, 01983, though the TCP/IP RFCs start in 01976 or 01977. Do you mean it was still deployed as a research network in 01987, as it was in, for example, 01992? Perhaps you meant that 01987 was the last year it was US-only? But vidarh pointed out above that the ARPANET was connected to NORSAR, a research center in Norway, in June 01973, and Norway is in Europe, so in fact our current internet has had some international connections for almost 49 years now.
- peoplefromibiza 5y ago
  > 1987"? The first ARPANET link was active in 01969, ARPANET is not INTERNET there were many network similar to ARPANET for scope (maybe not size, but Europe was politically much different back then and the wall in Berlin was still there) at the same time ARPANET was alive Russians had their network too since the late 70s, and at one point they connected to the US directly even during the cold war years! (mid 80s). > Perhaps you meant that 01987 was the last year it was US-only? no, it was the year it became "a public accessible network", after NSFNET was established. The year later research centers in Europe were connected to it and were contributing to it. ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990