You know you are old….

Om Malik | Sunday, August 29, 2004 | 10:09 AM PT | 0 comments

When you wake up in the morning and discover that even the Internet is younger than you. Anyway Happy Birthday Internet.

Thirty-five years after computer scientists at UCLA linked two bulky computers using a 15-foot gray cable, testing a new way for exchanging data over networks, what would ultimately become the Internet remains a work in progress. Stephen Crocker and Vinton Cerf were among the graduate students who joined UCLA professor Len Kleinrock in an engineering lab on Sept. 2, 1969, as bits of meaningless test data flowed silently between the two computers. By January, three other “nodes” joined the fledgling network.

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