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[ih] birth of the Internet?



Dave CROCKER wrote:
> NSFNet really qualifies as the /final/ stage of development of the 
> Internet, before fully commercial adoption.
As I recall, Roger Fradenburgh had the job of turning off the ARPANET, 
at its end-of-life.  I was in the next office at BBN when net 10 went 
down, and bits just kept humming across the Internet.   One of the 
sadder moments in Internet history.

Miles

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