Happy Birthday, Internet!

[wraggster]

I'd like to wish a happy birthday to the Internet! Today marks its 40th birthday! In fall 1969, computers sending data between two California universities set the stage for the Internet, which became a household word in the 1990s. On September 2nd 1969, in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, two computers passed test data through a 15-foot gray cable. Stanford Research Institute joined the fledgling ARPANET network a month later; UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah joined by years end, and the internet was born.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/02/2223247/Happy-Birthday-Internet

[VampDude]

I wonder if 40 years ago today, they knew how big the internet would be for people and that it would revolutionize the home computer (and the world for that matter), bringing more PC's into homes than ever before, I bet they would have laughed at the thought of watching videos online and sharing vast amounts of information within seconds that would then have taken months or even years back then. :)