The Interweb Is 40 Years Old?

The Internet is 40 years old! It’s older than me – I didn’t know that!

Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. The researchers sought to create an open network for freely exchanging information, an openness that ultimately spurred the innovation that would later spawn the likes of YouTube, Facebook and the World Wide Web.

Few were paying attention back on Sept. 2, 1969, when about 20 people gathered in Kleinrock’s lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, to watch as two bulky computers passed meaningless test data through a 15-foot gray cable. The Internet didn’t become a household word until the ’90s, though, after a British physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the Web, a subset of the Internet that makes it easier to link resources across disparate locations.

4 thoughts on “The Interweb Is 40 Years Old?

  1. That Girl says:

    huh … i thought it was al gore?? :-)

  2. Roshan says:

    Nah! Gore’s a Bore while Bush was…..a humongous mistake never to be repeated for a 3rd time!

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  4. Happy 40th Birthday Internet

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