Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Happy birthday, internets!

From an article by Ruth Brown @ Crikey.com.au .....

"Today is the internet’s 40th birthday. Well, maybe: 2 September marks 40 years since a bunch of geeks gathered in a lab at UCLA and successfully sent some data between two primitive computers through a five-metre cable. Some will probably celebrate the date of 29 October the same year, when the US Department of Defence hooked up the first two nodes of the ARPANET and the Stanford Research Institute."

.... keep reading at crikey.com.au/../happy-birthday-internets


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