ARPANET Turns 40 today!
May 5th, 2009
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This year marks the 40th anniversary of an important milestone in internet history — the development and successful link of the first host-to-host internet connection.
On April 7 1969, Steve Crocker of UCLA circulated around a memo entitled ‘Request for Comments, the first of thousands of “RFCs” documenting the design of ARPANET and the Internet. A few months and many memos and experiments later, in October, 1969, Charley Kline at UCLA sent the first packets on ARPANET as he tried to connect to Stanford Research Institute. Below, a copy of the transmission log.
(Courtesy of BoingBoing & Happy Cinco de Mayo!)
