www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/02/1041196726476.html
On January 1, it was two decades since the Net was switched to the TCP/IP protocol on January 1, 1983. Until the switch from NCP (network control protocol), the number of computers connecting to what was then the ARPANET was below 1,000. Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn are credited with designing the TCP/IP protocol. In a message posted to the general mailing list of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the main standards organisation for the Internet, Bob Braden, a pioneer of the Internet himself, wrote: "The most logical date of origin of the Internet is January 1, 1983, when the ARPANET officially switched from the NCP protocol to TCP/IP. People sometimes question that any geeks would have been in machine rooms on January 1.
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