The Internet Celebrates 40th Birthday

The internet, which is probably the most staggering entity of the contemporary era that has undoubtedly transformed the lifestyles of almost everyone on planet Earth, will be entering into its 40s on the coming 29th.

Back in 1969, two letters, namely “LO”, were typed using the keyboard in the University of California, and sent to Stanford Research Institute situated some 314 miles away.

The computer researchers had originally intended to type the word LOGIN, but they got disconnected just before they entered G in their message.

The message, however, was earmarked as the first data sent over the telephone line between the two computers located hundreds of miles away.

Initially, it wasn’t termed as the internet, as we know it today, instead it was then referred to as Arpanet, an acronym for ‘Advanced Research Project Agency Network’.

The Arpanet was created by a team of researchers from the University of California spearheaded by Leonard Kleinrock, who now has expressed his astonishment over the new technologies and services, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, to mention a few that have significantly stirred up the modern internet domains.

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Commenting upon the way the internet has evolved since its birth in 1969, Kleinock said: “It's a teenager now. It's learned some things but it has a long way to go. It's behaving erratically, but it's given enormous gratification to its parents and the community”.