A big day

in Internet history.

On this date in 1969 the first

Arpanet

network was begun.

You might not consider this a big deal, but it really was. I was on the early ARPANET/MilNet network for a few years before the actual Internet came into being and the only alternative was BBS systems. Though still connected through a telephone gateway it was the first real bi-directional communication over computers, at least in my experience...

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