[hoosierskypilot]

What? No mention of Al Bore, the originator and inventor of the internet?

[billorites]

I was dialing up my college's computer at 300 baud back in 1983.

Also was accessing an aviation related BBS about that time.

Ah, I miss my acoustic coupler.

Not.

[Malesherbes]

Algore will celebrate quietly with his family and think about his new discovery, the Zeitgeist.

[alancarp]

Vint Cerf, the co-inventor of the protocol, says the anniversary is "a major milestone" for computer users to observe. However, there are others who insist that the Internet is even older than that.

Yeah, I was wondering when terms such as (D)Arpanet and csnet gave way to "Internet" -- I had an email address on my school's VAX system as early as 1982 (we used email to invite speakers for ACM forums back then). I don't recall the data-handling protocol, but this sounds almost as if they're celebrating the birth of IP/TCP rather than Internet.

[putupjob]

Thanks Al Gore. Now the economy is broken and we're all wondering when you are going to come back and just fix it!
Or was that Ross Perot?

[RightWhale]

when two computers at the UCLA swapped data across a 15-foot cable

When we had 2 workstation computers linked that way in 1980, nobody thought it was special. We also had dial-up to the mainframe here and there. No big deal.

[Tribune7]

self-ping

[mombonn]

Happy anniversary, little brother. methinks you were there.

[anncoulteriscool]

UCLA beat Michigan in the rose bowl that day!