The Newspaper Shop -- Monday edition

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The Net marks its birthday, again
According to one Net pioneer, the Internet celebrated its "most logical" 20th birthday on New Year's Day -- barely three months after its 33rd birthday. A posting this week from Bob Braden on an influential mailing list states that the most logical origin of the Internet is Jan. 1, 1983, "when the ARPAnet officially switched from the NCP protocol to TCP/IP." Braden, who posted the claim on a mailing list of the Internet Engineering Task Force, was a member of the research group that worked on the TCP protocol. There are others who put the age of the Internet much earlier. On Sept. 24, 1999, a group of Internet luminaries gathered at a private estate in the San Francisco suburb of Atherton to mark the 30th anniversary of the Net. Settling on an exact date is likely to prove contentious, and the Internet is not the only technical entity suffering from vintage vagueness.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978918.html?tag=cd_mh