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"Some historians claim the Internet was born in 1961, when Dr. Leonard Kleinrock first published a paper on packet-switching technology at MIT," says a Wired News story from 2002.

"Others cite 1969, when the Department of Defense commissioned the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, known as ARPANET, to research a communication and command network that could withstand a nuclear attack."

So which was it?

The former, said a U-WIRE story in January this year, going on: "The Internet, the small network of computers that became a World Wide Web, celebrates its 35th birthday this year.

"The University of California at Los Angeles, in conjunction with Stanford University, the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of Utah, began constructing the Internet’s first incarnation for the Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1969."

And yesterday made the Net’s 35th birthday ‘official’.

"It was late evening on Oct. 29, 1969, when a technician sent that first message and changed the way the world communicates," says LA’s TownTalk, going on:

"Thirty-five years ago today, University of California at Los Angeles engineering professor Leonard Kleinrock and student Charley Kline sent the first message on what would later become the Internet to colleagues in upstate California.

Kleinrock and Kline had gotten their project off the ground a month earlier, but it was Oct. 29 when they successfully sent a message from one computer system to another. The message Kleinrock and Klein sent simply said "lo." It was sent from UCLA to another system several hundred miles north at Stanford University. Lo was actually supposed to be the word login, but the system crashed before the final g-i-n could be entered."

…. happy birthday to you !!!

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See:-
1961 – Happy Birthday, Dear Internet, Wired News, Decembeer 31, 2002
celebrates – Internet hits 35th birthday mark, U-WIRE, January 29, 2004
changed – Internet celebrates 35th birthday, Town Talk, October 19, 2004

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