Internet Turns 35 Today 244
shadowspar writes "The CBC is reporting that the Internet turned 35 today. The story talks about the less-than-prophetic beginnings of the net: 'In order to log in to the two-computer network, which was then called ARPANET, programmers at UCLA were to type in 'log', and Stanford would reply 'in'.
The UCLA programmers only got as far as 'lo' before the Stanford machine crashed.'"
1968 (Score:5, Informative)
Almost nobody noticed that 1968 was also the year when Noyce an Moore founded Intel [computerhope.com], Douglas Engelbart demoed [stanford.edu] for the fist time GUI, mouse and word processing, UCLA and Stanford started to build their networking connection. Even today, scholars seem not to notice the relevance of these facts.
Re:a graph of internet growth? (Score:5, Informative)
Other useful charts are at http://navigators.com/stats.html [navigators.com]
A map of global internet connectivity is http://navigators.com/globe16b.gif [navigators.com]here
The real question is - where does the Internet go from here?
Didn't this already happen? (Score:1, Informative)
A great book on this topic (Score:2, Informative)
Vint Cerf (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Story summary sounds fake... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Man (Score:2, Informative)
CBC news report on "Internet" (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Didn't this already happen? (Score:3, Informative)
The CBC article linked from the present story:
"After the hardware was put in place, researchers at UCLA attempted on Oct. 29, 1969, to log in to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, Calif."
So, the first "birthday" was meaningless bits of test data between two computers in the same room, this "birthday" is the first connection (and attempt at a meaningful natural language exchange) between computers in geographically separate locations.
Re:Now tell Joe Beer this. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Didn't this already happen? (Score:2, Informative)
Here's one [dailywireless.org] that said it turned 35 last month.
Here's yet another one [slashdot.org] at a reputable site [slashdot.org] that has it as 20 years ago, but this was Dec 31, 2002.
Any reason to celebrate, I guess.
Re:1968 (Score:1, Informative)
You don't know what you're talking about. The computer science dept at UCLA at that time was definitely a hotbed of psychedelic activity.
Re:21 (Score:4, Informative)
However, it should be noted that Gore's words in a CNN interview, as quoted by Wired News, were as
follows:
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the
initiative in creating the Internet."
Gore's meaning was fairly obvious: that he was one of the critical political supporters of the Internet. This is absolutely true. Without his support in the Congress, the Internet would have matured less quickly.
He never claimed to have "invented" anything. His efforts did help "create" the Internet though. And it is an accomplishment to be lauded...not mocked.
I wish people would stop misrepresenting this fact.