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Internet marks 40th birthday

Los Angeles : CA : USA | 28 days ago  
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  • The inside of the computer from which 40 years ago the first message was sent on the Internet
    The inside of the computer from which 40 years ago the first message ...
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The inside of the computer from which 40 years ago the first message ...
A computer expert said Thursday marks the 40th birthday of the Internet heralded by two computers at California schools connecting for the first time. Leonard Kleinrock told CNN he was a professor of computer science at the University of California-Los Angeles on Oct. 29, 1969, when the school's host...
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  • News Source: Xinhuanet.com | 27 days ago
    Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, to celebrate the historic moment.     "The 1969 connection was not just a symbolic milestone in the project that led to the Internet, but in the whole idea of connecting computers -- and...
  • News Source: United Press International | 28 days ago
    A computer expert said Thursday marks the 40th birthday of the Internet heralded by two computers at California schools connecting for the first time. Leonard Kleinrock told CNN he was a professor of computer science at the University of California-...
  • News Source: CNN | 28 days ago
    It was 1969 and a busy year for making history: Woodstock, the Miracle Mets, men on the moon -- and something less celebrated but arguably more significant, the birth of the Internet. On October 29 of that year, for the first time, a message was sent...
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