steck ja in den tiefen der ec70 fest ..

The term "catenet" was introduced by Louis Pouzin in 1974 in his early paper on packet network interconnection. The U.S.DARPA research project on this subject has adopted the term to mean roughly "the collection of packet networks which are connected together." This is, however, not a sufficiently explicit definition to determine, for instance, whether a new network is in conformance with the rules for network interconnection which make the catenet function as confederation of co-operating networks. (vint)

some also say, people had problems to pronounce catenet right, so they changed to internet, as they had internetting, internetworking already in their mind.

i am not so sure about the 1st of jan ...yet january 1983 is right. found an old post in my box: "We spent 1978 through 1982 implementing TCP/IP for a score of operating systems and deployed the system on January 1, 1983. As it was, it had taken 10 years of work to get from the concept to the reality of deployment ... vint