The Internet was 20 yesterday

January 1 1983 was the day when the switchover to TCP/IP was made. One of the most significant dates in our history, IMHO. (But then as the author of a brief history of the phenomenon, I would say that, wouldn’t I?) “Call it one small switch for man, but one giant switch for mankind.com”, was how Wired put it. Personally, I would have left out the dot-com bit.