Submission + - Internet Father Remembers First Packet Transfer (computerworld.com)
Lucas123 writes: "It was 40 years ago that that the infant Internet took its first breath of life, and Leonard Kleinrock, a distinguished professor of Computer Science at UCLA, was there to enable two computers to exchange data over a network for the very first time. On the Internet's birthday, Kieinrock waxes poetic about what it was like that day back in 1969. "There was a lot of anticipation that day, and about 20 people from the likes of GTE Corp., DARPA, Honeywell and Scientific Data Systems crowded into the computer lab to watch. "Everybody was ready to point the finger at the other guy if it didn't work. It was beautiful," he said. "I'd never imagined that my 99-year-old mother would be on the Internet.""
