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Surprise Happy Anniversary? [Jun. 6th, 2009|09:18 pm]
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I'm reading Accelerando by Charles Stross, and I just ran into this:

"... It happened on June 6, 1969, at eleven hundred hours, eastern seaboard time," Pierre counters. "That was when the first network control protocol packets were sent from the data port of one IMP to another -- the first ever Internet connection. ..."


(I haven't verified this.)
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