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title: The day the internet was born
date:  2025-01-01
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Happy Birthday, internet!

> January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to
> this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate
> with each other. A new communications protocol was established called Transfer
> Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol (TCP/IP). This allowed different kinds
> of computers on different networks to "talk" to each other. ARPANET and the
> Defense Data Network officially changed to the TCP/IP standard on January 1,
> 1983, hence the birth of the Internet. All networks could now be connected by
> a universal language.

Found via Stefan Bohacek[1] on Mastodon (embedded source[2])

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[1]: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113754663565613650
[2]: https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml