Internet Turns 35, Mid-Life Crisis Eminent

Thirty-five years ago this week, several UCLA grad students hooked up two computers in a small data network that would ultimately become the Internet. Snippet:

Thirty-five years after computer scientists at UCLA linked two bulky computers using a 15-foot gray cable, testing a new way for exchanging data over networks, what would ultimately become the Internet remains a work in progress.

Stephen Crocker and Vinton Cerf were among the graduate students who joined UCLA professor Len Kleinrock in an engineering lab on Sept. 2, 1969, as bits of meaningless test data flowed silently between the two computers. By January, three other "nodes" joined the fledgling network.

Read the whole AP story here at MyWay.com.

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