Internet celebrates 40th birthday

The internet celebrates its birthday today, September 2, with 40 years having passed since the first successful transfer of data between two computers.

The midwives for the modern era of communication were scientists at the University of Los Angeles in California (UCLA), who connected the neighbouring machines with a 15ft grey cable.

-- telegraph.co.uk 2009-09-02

Happy 40th Birthday!

I can't imagine life without you.

Thank you for everything that you have provided me.

Wishing you more birthdays to come!

Internet celebrates 40th birthday

The internet celebrates its birthday today, September 2, with 40 years having passed since the first successful transfer of data between two computers.

UCThe midwives for the modern era of communication were scientists at the University of Los Angeles in California (LA), who connected the neighbouring machines with a 15ft grey cable.

-- telegraph.co.uk 2009-09-02

Really?

Although the basic applications and guidelines that make the Internet possible had existed for almost two decades, the network did not gain a public face until the 1990s. On 6 August 1991, CERN, a pan European organisation for particle research, publicized the new World Wide Web project. The Web was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. An early popular web browser was ViolaWWW, patterned after HyperCard and built using the X Window System. It was eventually replaced in popularity by the Mosaic web browser. In 1993, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois released version 1.0 of Mosaic, and by late 1994 there was growing public interest in the previously academic, technical Internet. By 1996 usage of the word Internet had become commonplace, and consequently, so had its use as a synecdoche in reference to the World Wide Web.

Edited September 2, 200916 yr by hansnl

ARPANET was not an inter-university network. Look to DoD in the US.

I remember history, it was about Vikings and pyramids (not in the same context I might add).