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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/20/21 17:26, Mel Beckman wrote:<br>
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Mark,
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<div class="">As long as we’re being pedantic, January 1, 1983 is
considered the official birthday of the Internet, when TCP/IP
first let different kinds of computers on different networks
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<div class="">It’s 2021, hence the Internet is <i class="">less</i> than,
not more than, 40 years old. Given your mathematical skills, I
put no stock in your claim that we still can’t “buy an NMS that
just works.” :)</div>
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Hehehe :-)...<br>
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I guess we can reliably say that the ARPANET wasn't keen on pretty
pictures, then, hehe :-)...<br>
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Mark.<br>
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