September 2, 1969: Forty years ago today, in Leonard Kleinrock's UCLA
lab, a group of computer scientists managed to pass bits of data from
one computer to another over some some gray cable. In doing so, they
created the first node of what we now call (long dramatic pause)... the
Internet.
Kleinrock and colleagues were working with the government-backed Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), without which I would not be blogging these words today.
Now,
some folks believe the actual "birthday" was October 29, 1969 - when
Kleinrock sent the first message between two nodes, UCLA to Stanford.
The message? "LO." As in "LO AND BEHOLD, THE INTERNET." Well, okay, not
really. It was supposed to be "LOGIN" but the system crashed after
Kleinrock typed "L" and "O."
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