On October 29, 1969 Professor Leonard Kleinrock sent a message letter-by-letter from a UCLA computer to another computer at Stanford. Kleinrock was sending over “login” but after just two letters the system crashed. The networking of these two computers was the very beginning of what would grow, after many other very significant milestones, into the Internet as we know it today.
For the Internet’s first twenty years it was used primarily by universities and the U.S. government.After Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web in 1989, the Internet entered public awareness and boomed in the 1990′s.
Happy 40th, Internet. You’ve never looked better.
