Document: WR-010                                                 P. Webb
                                                              2025.01.01

                     The day the internet was born

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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])