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The Internet Turns 50 Today

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 7:05 am
by mediatechnology
The internet was born when the first Arpanet link was established between the University of California, Los Angeles and the Stanford Research Institute at 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969. UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock and his student Charley Kline sent the first message to Bill Duval, a programmer at Stanford University. That first communication was the spark that ignited the growth of the internet and everything it has brought with it – email, sharing pictures on Facebook, buying books and toasters on Amazon, watching movies on Netflix, cat videos, mean-spirited memes and election-tampering bots.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/34 ... ssues.html

Re: The Internet Turns 50 Today

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 10:51 am
by billshurv
50 years since the first Arpanet message 'LO', but stretching it a bit to say the 'internet' turns 50 as TCP/IP wasn't going to come along for another 6 years? And of course packet switching had been demonstrated elsewhere by this time.

Re: The Internet Turns 50 Today

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 12:36 pm
by JR.
90 years ago today the stock market crashed...

took 25 years to regain prior high, and keep going.

JR