On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

> From: Clem Cole

> first of Jan 83 was the day the Arpanet was supposed to be turned off

Err, NCP, not the ARPANet.

Absolutely right.

Sorry about that.

The latter kept running for quite some time,
serving as the Internet's wide-area backbone, and was only slowly turned off
(IMP by IMP) in the late 80's, with the very last remnants finally being
turned off in 1990.

Indeed