What began with the desire to have two computers communicate with one another has evolved into a global, online universe we call the Internet. Yesterday, September 2nd, 2009, marked 40 years since the first computer-to-computer communication.
According to National Geographic:
Then on September 2nd 1969, in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, two computers passed test data through a 15-foot gray cable. Stanford Research Institute joined the fledging ARPANET network a month later; UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah joined by year’s end, and the internet was born.
Now millions of Americans connect to the Internet via the broadband network for work, communication, health, education, finance, commerce, public safety, travel and more!
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September 21st, 2009 at 4:32 pm
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