30th Anniversary of 1st internetwork transmission
On November 7, 2007, the Computer History Museum and the Web History Center in Mountain View, CA will present a special celebration of an historic demonstration that led to the Internet we know and use today. The event commemorates the 30th anniversary of the first TCP-based transmission between three dissimilar networks -- widely regarded as the first true Internet connection.
In the fall of 1977, an unmarked step van filled with futuristic equipment, engineers, and sometimes fully uniformed generals quietly cruised the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area. Only an oddly shaped antenna gave any hint of its purpose. The key event occurred on November 22, when data flowed seamlessly from the van to a gateway at SRI in Menlo Park, Calif. and eventually to a host at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles via London, England, across three types of networks: packet radio, satellite, and the ARPANET.
Read MoreIn the fall of 1977, an unmarked step van filled with futuristic equipment, engineers, and sometimes fully uniformed generals quietly cruised the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area. Only an oddly shaped antenna gave any hint of its purpose. The key event occurred on November 22, when data flowed seamlessly from the van to a gateway at SRI in Menlo Park, Calif. and eventually to a host at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles via London, England, across three types of networks: packet radio, satellite, and the ARPANET.
The panel, and 1977 affiliations, from left to right: Virginia Strazisar Travers (BBN), Paal Spilling (Norwegian Defense Research), Don Nielson (SRI), Bob Kahn (DARPA), Irwin Jacobs (Linkabit), Jim Garrett (Collins Radio Co.), Vint Cerf (DARPA)
John Hight, in the original van, next to the packet radio ("wireless router") that emerged about two decades later.
Dave Beyer, John Hight, Barbara Denny, Don Alves (at least Don was there in '77)
