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Computer Science

Oct 30, 2009 | Posted by: news_monster

Happy 40th birthday, Internet

Full story: news.techworld.com

On October 29, 1969, the Internet came in not with a bang, but with a "lo." Letter by letter, UCLA computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock sent a message from his school's host computer to another computer at Stanford Research Institute.

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Mitch Rapp

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Oct 31, 2009
 
I would like to be the first person to thank Al Gore for inventing the internet.
Ted

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Oct 31, 2009
 
Mitch Rapp wrote:
I would like to be the first person to thank Al Gore for inventing the internet.
His 5th grade science project. NOT!
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