George wrote:
>
>
> Blair P. Houghton wrote:
>
>>
>> The Internet was the NSFNet Internet Backbone (not ARPANET; that was
>> still a separate branch on the Internet).
>
> "The Internet was ... NSFNet...ARPANET..was... the Internet." How's that
> for parsing?
>
> I'll stand by my original phraseology where I used 'web' and not 'Web.'
> You can tell me what I meant, but that means nothing.

But again, web is Web, is WEB is WWW. Its an Internet service.

> 1958 - ARPA created
> 1966 - first ARPAnet plan
> 1967 - ARPANET design discussions held by Larry Roberts at ARPA IPTO PI
> meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan
> 1969 - ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research into networking
> 1973 - first international connection to ARPANET
> - Cerf and Kahn present basic Internet ideas at INWG in September
> at Univ of Sussex
> 1979 - USENET created
> - Meeting between Univ of Wisconsin, DARPA, National Science
> Foundation (NSF), and computer scientists from many universities to
> establish a Computer Science Department research computer network
> 1981 - CSNET (Computer Science NETwork) built
> 1982 - Norway leaves network to become an Internet connection via TCP/IP
> over SATNET
> 1984 - (DNS) introduced
> 1986 - NSFNET created (backbone speed of 56Kbps) - for 5 Universities only
> 1990 - ARPANET ceases to exist
> - The World comes on-line (world.std.com), becoming the first
> commercial provider of Internet dial-up access
>
> source - http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
>
> Not my original point, but obviously ARPANET was the backbone of NSFNET
> and without ARPANET, the NSFNET might still be only 'academic.'

That was my understanding as well, ARPANET was .mil and .edu connections.
I was lucky enough to play around on it in 1985, it really has changed in
the last 20 years.

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Dan