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CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF THE NET

POSTED BY MELATTREE, OCTOBER 29, 2009 09:20 AM | PERMALINK | 0 VOTES

The internet turns 40

Most of us take this big digital space called the internet for granted. We use it everyday yet most don't know how the internet started. Check out this BBC News article that celebrates the fact that the net is 40 years old today!

It has often been said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. For the internet, that first step was more of a stumble.

At 2100, on 29 October 1969, engineers 400 miles apart at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and Stanford Research Institute (SRI) prepared to send data between the first nodes of what was then known as Arpanet.

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