[asterisk-users] "Happy Birthday Asterisk"

[Philip Prindeville]

The Internet is a lot older than 20 years!

I sent my first email in 1981 (yes, using SMTP and TCP/IP), and even 
then it had been around for a while (maybe not using TCP... but in the 
NCP incarnation at least).  IP dates back to... what?  1978?

Yeah, the RFC was published in September 1981, but implementations had 
been running around on IMP's, PDP-11s, and Honeywell Susie's.... (See 
IEN-106 and -111)  And RFC-791 covers IP *v4*.  There were earlier 
experimental versions of IP, but v4 got it right.

So I'd venture to say that by August, the Internet will really be *30* 
years old.

-Philip

Steve Totaro wrote:
> Happy Birthday Internet! 20 years and there was a nice celebration with 
> the founding fathers (visionaries) in DC.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
>
> Dean Collins wrote:
>   
>> Sorry if this dupes, didn’t seem to post to the list when I emailed it 
>> a few hours ago.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dean Collins
>> Cognation Pty Ltd
>> dean at cognation.net <mailto:dean at cognation.net>
>> +1-212-203-4357
>> +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).
>>
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>>
>> *From:* Dean Collins
>> *Sent:* Thursday, December 06, 2007 2:49 PM
>> *To:* 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
>> *Subject:* “Happy Birthday Asterisk”
>>
>> So I got to drop in on the afternoon sessions of the 
>> http://www.voicepeeringforum.com <http://www.voicepeeringforum.com/> 
>> held in New York yesterday. There’s a blogpost here 
>> http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/vpfan-interesting-yet-frustrating.html 
>> but really just wanted to say because I didn’t see anyone else say it 
>> yesterday *“Happy Birthday Asterisk”.*
>>
>> Kevin Fleming from Digium gave a session yesterday about Asterisk when 
>> we all realized that Asterisk was 8 years old as of purely by 
>> co-incidence yesterday December 5th.
>>
>> On December 5th 1999 Mark Spenser released version 0.1.0 ..... and an 
>> industry was born :)
>>
>> I don’t know if the guys at Digium celebrated in anyway but maybe 
>> there can be a big “User Event” in Huntsville in 2 years time on the 
>> 10^th anniversary. Just a thought.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dean Collins
>> Cognation Pty Ltd
>> dean at cognation.net <mailto:dean at cognation.net>
>> +1-212-203-4357
>> +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).
>>
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