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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 24 2012 @ 12:06 PM EDT
I would date the birth of the internet to the first router built by BBN. Or the RFC for DNS, which distributed the name schemes and got away from distributed host files.

We referred to it as the Internet long before DNS was in use. Hosts files had other uses - they were central to Usenet - but we all envied those blessed with high-speed 64 kbit/sec Internet connections.

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Authored by: DieterWasDriving on Tuesday, July 24 2012 @ 12:50 PM EDT
The "1969" date is bandied about, but I don't agree with it. You
couldn't do anything useful with the early work. The potential was there, but
not the reality.

Nor do I agree with DNS being an essential element. I recall it being a major
convenience when we didn't have to update /etc/hosts every night, but it didn't
really change the feel of the ARPAnet when it occurred. Indeed the need for DNS
was a reflection that ARPAnet had already grown to the point where you couldn't
know every machine that was added.

"The Internet" really only became a useful thing in the early 1980s.
Before then doing 'telnet' or 'supdup' to a machine across the country was a
demo stunt. Sometime around 1984 it became common practice.

Some people will point to applications on closed networks or batch transfer
networks (e.g. various mail systems and Usenet) that were becoming common at the
time, but those were qualitatively different that a real-time internet.

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