Internet is now 40! Happy Birthday
filed in Android on Oct.29, 2009
Today 40 years ago the first characters went over a phone line! Charley S. Kline send the first character “L” as part of his attempt to write “Login” from his lab at UCLA to the first “Interface Message Processor” (IMP) which was located at Stanford university. After 3 chars the system at SRI in Stanford crashed but one of his following his Login attempts a few hours later finally went through in the late evening of Oct. 29th of 1969.
Other persons involved in the general project and key figures later on are Steve Crocker, Vint Cerf, Len Kleinrock and Jon Postel.
The ARPANET went on to grow and grow from the initial 4 nodes in ‘69 to a whopping “15″ in 1971. The first nodes in Germany were still counted in the two digit number area (anyone remember “Walhalla” of Unido?). Well, the military driven ARPANET grew further into the University and research realm and ultimately went “public/commercial” in 1990 (really this late?).
I has not been easy to get an internet account in those early days. Somehow i managed to sneak into an university network over the phone line – at around 100 baud sending my first email. Then the days of CompusServe and AOL came (remember all thos CDs?) and went by. ISDN, DSL, broadband cable and public WiFi made it more and more an easy task to get the daily dose of the Internet.
I myself heard Bill Joy talking about the “network is the computer” during one of the early Sun Developers conferences in downtown San Fran and i also waited for the first Pizza to be delivered after the first eCommerce transaction over at the campus of UC Santa Cruz (the Pizza guy got the wrong adress and we waited for hours) during an SCO conference.
Today i carry around not one but many “internet devices” with me. Maxwell Smart, the funny guy talking with his shoe and transferring an ongoing call to his tie to proceed talking nonsense is finally an reality.
The Internet change our world. Only a few saw the big thing coming in those ealry days but guys like JR Licklider were already developing ideas. The Internet is changing our world. The speed of change is tremendous and is increasing all the time after the big bang 40 years ago. How will it be in 10 years?
October 29th, 2009 on 20:41
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