29 oktober 2009

Grattis internet - 40 år idag

Idag fyller internet 40 år. Grattis grattis!

BBC News skriver medryckande om internets födelse: "It has often been said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. For the internet, that first step was more of a stumble.

At 21.00, on 29 October 1969, engineers 400 miles apart at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and Stanford Research Institute (SRI) prepared to send data between the first nodes of what was then known as Arpanet.

Kline typed an "L" and then asked his colleague Bill Duvall at SRI via a telephone headset if the letter had arrived.

It had.

Kline typed an "O". Duvall said that arrived too.

Kline typed a "G". Duvall could only report that the system had crashed.

They got it working again by 22:30 and everything went fine."

Läs den rafflande historien Celebrating 40 years of the net på BBC News.

Söker man på internet på svenska Google får man cirka 1 590 000 000 träffar.

/Peter
Andra om .
Hela skissen över Arpanet finns här på Wikipedia.

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