Happy belated Birthday Internet!

Professor Leonard Kleinrock courtesy of NPR and the BBC

Somehow, we bloggers missed this one a month ago. But I was reminded of this great technological and historical happening when listening to NPR and the BBC today.

Onoctober 29, 1969, the Internet came to be when a computer at the University of California, Los Angeles, was linked to a computer at Stanford 400 miles away.

Some dispute this by attesting that the actualization of the net really came on September 2, 1969 when, within the same room, in Leonard Kleinrock’s lab, a group of scientists sent information from one computer to another through an odd-lengthed grey cable. Thus the belated birthday title.

Listen to the BBC broadcast interview with scientist, Professor Leonard Kleinrock who logged into  the network fpr the first time at UCLA and linked to that computer at Stanford while simultaneously speaking on the phone with his colleague at Stanford. Here he tells his thoughts then and his thoughts now in retrospect.  It is an insightful interview.