On September 2, 1969, Leonard Kleinrock and a handful of associates began tests on what was soon to become the Internet. About forty people gathered in Kleinrock's lab at the University of California, Los Angeles to observe two bulky computers fifteen feet apart send test data to each other across a gray cable.
That was the humble beginning of what was originally called the 'Arpanet' network - a government-supported data network that would use the technology which by then had come to be known as "packet switching."
Soon, the Stanford Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah joined in. What followed thereafter is a revolution.
& today, we enjoy the fruits.
Celebrate the revolution.
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