I think there’s a better case for 1 January 1983, when the Internet truly became an internetwork with the ARPANET switchover from NCP to TCP/IP. That was also the last time the whole Internet went down at once. If you ask the right people, some of them still have the flags that were handed out.
It’s a real shame that we won’t get a second flag day when we all switch to IPv6.
What I’ve been reading (via LibDig.co.uk)
Using that date as the internet’s birth date means I can justifiably claim to be “younger than the internet”
I think there’s a better case for 1 January 1983, when the Internet truly became an internetwork with the ARPANET switchover from NCP to TCP/IP. That was also the last time the whole Internet went down at once. If you ask the right people, some of them still have the flags that were handed out.
It’s a real shame that we won’t get a second flag day when we all switch to IPv6.