Post by @stefan@stefanbohacek.online

2026-08-27 12:11 UTC

Happy Beginning of the Internet Age Day! "The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the [Packet Radio Van] and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti's (since 1956, officially the "Alpine Inn"), a well-known Portola Valley, California biker bar, and wires were run to one of the picnic tables." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio_Van #internet #InternetHistory #InternetAge #PacketRadioVan #arpanet #history #OnThisDay #OTD

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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online 2026-08-27 12:59

50 years in, and things are not looking so great. But! I am very grateful for all of you keeping the spirit of the early, human-centered web alive. https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/109909025848772528

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@colorblindcowboy@mastodon.art 2026-08-27 14:42

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online I’ve been there too, seen the plaque. But, yeah, hard to say how much I feel like celebrating given the capitalist/fascist beast it’s become.

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@Selvari21106@mastodon.social 2026-08-27 14:58

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online "It was the beginning of the internet" - Jay Foreman

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@vvbudh@climatejustice.social 2026-08-27 15:34

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online did you know I’ve explained to my partner how TCP works and now we use it during conversations? I’ll ask them something and they’ll repeat it back to me and I’ll say “that’s right” or vice versa. And now our relationship misunderstandings have decreased dramatically! GO TCP!! #relationshipadvice #tcp #humor

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@kyonshi@dice.camp 2026-08-27 15:46

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online I was there, 3000 years... oh wait, I wasn't even born then. Yep, the internet is older than I am.

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@etchedpixels@mastodon.social 2026-08-27 17:20

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online TCP was later was it not

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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange 2026-08-27 17:21

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online TCP/IP is a stunningly robust protocol stack. at an early startup, for fun, we set up 2 150 baud acoustic coupler modems, connected them with 2 v8 cans connected by waxed cotton thread, and were able to send packets back and forth (TCP/IP/cslip/tin-can-and-string).

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@philleu@mastodon.social 2026-08-27 20:21

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online Wait. So they were bikers?

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@nosenkow@mastodon.social 2026-08-27 20:33

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online The same vibe as this plate at pedestrian walk at Marseille Old Port, France

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@yertle@mastodon.social 2026-08-28 02:46

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @briankrebs@infosec.exchange wow, my buddy used to live down the road from the Alpine Inn. I had no idea it was internet famous

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