There’s some debate as to the true birthdate of the Internet, some say it’s Jan 1, 1983 when the National Science Foundation’s university network backbone came online. But others claim it’s April 7, 1969.
The earlier date may be symbolic but it’s the publication of the first Request for Comments, RFC 1. It was written by Steve Crocker of UCLA, titled “Host Software’ and was referring to experiments on the ARPA network.
References:
- RFC 1 (full text of the document)
- Request For Comments – history, purpose
- RFC Index – links to almost 5,000 RFCs
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