During 1983, ArpaNet adopted TCP/IP protocol making it a network of networks. I started transferring email and supporting documentation from the US down to Australia for our defense industry project partners. The instant response was critical to keep coding/test activities synchronized. A year later, I went down for a two year assignment on the project. I never dreamed ArpaNet -> Internet growth would explode like it did.
TCP/IP was being tested in 1975-81 as best I know (I recall the discussions on it in 1981), and was first adopted for mainstream use in in 1982 with the formation of what was known as SATNET.
The US Military adopted TCP/IP for all of the defense needs in 1983, using the existing arpanet that existed.
It actually took a couple of years for all users on the arpanet to fully switch to TCP/IP from what Wiki identifies as the previous "Network Control Program" (NCP). Many computing centers allow both NCP and TCP/IP for a while.
With arpanet now using TCP/IP SATNET merged with it, and new branches started to be build.
It sure was an interesting time. I used to be able to recover my email using basic TCP/IP commands as recently as 1990 when remote from my home. I've since forgotten those commands; and its my understanding that the internet has now moved past the old TCP/IP (they have newer versions of it - keeping the name even if the structure has changed); leaving classic TCP/IP in the history bin just as it left NCP in the history bin.
Well of course token ring architectures, like those used in massively parallel relational databases have never used TCP/IP. But for the most part, the seven layer (originally 4 layer) OSI model is still intact. The entire World Wide Web made a very graceful transition to IPv6 about 10 years ago and the whole standard continues to evolve with special headers, point-to-point-tunneling protocol, etc.
Actually, network evolution is one of the smoothest most sensible foundations of the cyber universe. To be sure, Telnet is dead. My telnet manual is in the same junk drawer as my plastic slide rule from the sixties.
When did you first start using the internet?
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During 1983, ArpaNet adopted TCP/IP protocol making it a network of networks. I started transferring email and supporting documentation from the US down to Australia for our defense industry project partners. The instant response was critical to keep coding/test activities synchronized. A year later, I went down for a two year assignment on the project. I never dreamed ArpaNet -> Internet growth would explode like it did.
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TCP/IP was being tested in 1975-81 as best I know (I recall the discussions on it in 1981), and was first adopted for mainstream use in in 1982 with the formation of what was known as SATNET.
The US Military adopted TCP/IP for all of the defense needs in 1983, using the existing arpanet that existed.
It actually took a couple of years for all users on the arpanet to fully switch to TCP/IP from what Wiki identifies as the previous "Network Control Program" (NCP). Many computing centers allow both NCP and TCP/IP for a while.
With arpanet now using TCP/IP SATNET merged with it, and new branches started to be build.
It sure was an interesting time. I used to be able to recover my email using basic TCP/IP commands as recently as 1990 when remote from my home. I've since forgotten those commands; and its my understanding that the internet has now moved past the old TCP/IP (they have newer versions of it - keeping the name even if the structure has changed); leaving classic TCP/IP in the history bin just as it left NCP in the history bin.
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Well of course token ring architectures, like those used in massively parallel relational databases have never used TCP/IP. But for the most part, the seven layer (originally 4 layer) OSI model is still intact. The entire World Wide Web made a very graceful transition to IPv6 about 10 years ago and the whole standard continues to evolve with special headers, point-to-point-tunneling protocol, etc.
Actually, network evolution is one of the smoothest most sensible foundations of the cyber universe. To be sure, Telnet is dead. My telnet manual is in the same junk drawer as my plastic slide rule from the sixties.