[LINK] It was twenty years ago today ...

[Markus Buchhorn]

At 02:02 AM 1/11/2002 +1100, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>This document, from simpler times, changed the world ... 
>
>RFC 821:  
>SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL
>Jonathan B. Postel  August 1982 

Since we're being nostalgic, let me point out two other major 20th anniversaries, probably just as important:

The Internet using TCP/IP is nearly 20 (1 January 1983)
http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Arpanet_Protocol_Thread.html

The smiley :-) is 20 (19 September 1982) (at least, as far as anybody knows)
http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html

Cheers,
        Markus


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