The 40th Birthday of the Internet Born at UCLA in 1969

In 1969 UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock sent the first message from his computer at the school to another computer at Stanford Research Institute.  Kleinrock was trying to create a login starting up a remote system which crashed after only two letters and lo! producing the first Internet message.  The Internet was born with the simple data message sent between two remote networked computers progressing to the millions of daily connected users today.

The creation of the internet, email, chat and social networking has been a significant influence on the lives of billions of people worldwide over the past 40 years.  Most Internet users consider the Internet to be a new invention not realizing the basis of the Internet started 40 years ago.  Google now recognizes over 1 TRILLION pages for it's search engine making it more difficult each day to be ranked in the 'Top 10' search results.

The Internet progressed from the initial remote computer connection to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which created ARPAnet for defense communications.  In the 1970's Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCPIP) was developed for networks to 'internetwork' which spawned the name 'Internet'.  In 1983 TCPIP was accepted as the official protocol further progressing the Internet as a universally accepted means of electronic communications.

After 1983 the number of connected computers expanded and new networks outside of ARPAnet were created to connect computers worldwide.  In 1989 Tim Berners Lee proposed an inter connected network to share documents and files via a Internet initiating the first Web Browser.  Within five years the world was using a web browser to search connected computers information or documents followed by the Web 2.0 term for later sites such as Facebook,  Flickr, MySpace and social networking.

Few realize the power of the Internet with 40 years of development contributing to the World Wide Web used today.  At once there are millions of people connecting, communicating and collaborating every minute of every day worldwide.

Robert 'Dot Com' Jackson

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