Network researchers know that packets are not always evenly spaced, they sometimes arrive in bursts. This burstiness is also present in history. Important events sometimes occur almost simultaneously even if there is no direct relationship between them. Fifty years ago, several historical events took place within a period of a few months. In July, after years of efforts, NASA engineers successfully launched Apollo 13 and the Eagle landed on the Moon. The first footsteps of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have opened the era of space exploration and maybe another human will land on another planet during this century. One month later, hundreds of thousands of music fans gathered at the Woodstock festival. In parallel, a few computer scientists and engineers started to deploy prototype nodes of the ARPANET network. The first packets that they exchanged have initiated the revolution that brought the Internet and today's connected society. At that time, research in computer networks had already started and several members of this emerging community gathered in an interest group that later became ACM SIGCOMM.

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ACM SIGCOMM 的前五十年

网络研究人员知道数据包的间隔并不总是均匀的，它们有时会以突发形式到达。这种突发性也存在于历史中。重要事件有时几乎同时发生，即使它们之间没有直接关系。五十年前，几个月的时间里发生了几件历史事件。7月，经过多年努力，NASA工程师成功发射阿波罗13号，鹰号登陆月球。尼尔·阿姆斯特朗和巴兹·奥尔德林的第一步开启了太空探索的时代，也许本世纪另一个人类将登陆另一个星球。一个月后，成千上万的乐迷齐聚伍德斯托克音乐节。与此同时，一些计算机科学家和工程师开始部署 ARPANET 网络的原型节点。他们交换的第一个数据包引发了一场革命，带来了互联网和当今的互联社会。那时，计算机网络的研究已经开始，这个新兴社区的一些成员聚集在一个后来成为 ACM SIGCOMM 的兴趣组中。