Re: 30th Anniversary of Transition to TCP/IP

Lixia Zhang <lixia@cs.ucla.edu> Mon, 31 December 2012 21:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: 30th Anniversary of Transition to TCP/IP
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On Dec 31, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:

>> From: IETF Chair <chair@ietf.org>
> 
>> The ARPANET transitioned to TCP/IP on 1 January 1983. That was 30 years
>> ago,
> 
> It's very hard indeed to fully grasp that it's only been 30 years. My kids
> (now roughly 20) live in what is in some ways an entirely different world to
> the one I grew up in.
> 
> Many technologies have had profound impacts in a short time (my parents were
> born shortly after the dawn of flight, and in their late middle age saw
> people landing on the Moon); and train, telegraph and telephone all each had
> tremendous impact, but I'm not sure any have had quite as much as this
> internetting stuff.

agree, both in terms of how much impact, and how big part of the society impacted.


> 
> It's been quite a ride.
> 
> 	Noel