Happy Birthday Internet

Happy Birthday for the 35 years of "The Network"...

Ok, to be more accurate, the birthday date is only a convention but we can accept that today are 35 years from the first real network created.

The official born of "Internet" came 35 years ago (2nd of September 1969) from the first ARPAnet (Advanced Research Project Agency Network) network, that was only an interconnection between 4 nodes, but other people think that the real born of "Internet" was on the year 1983, when the ARPAnet network was revolutioned with the TCP/IP protocol adoption.

However, Internet was (and is) a big phenomenon that has revolutioned our life so... happy Birthday Big Network!

Print | posted on Thursday, September 02, 2004 4:39 AM

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Left by Adrian Florea on Sep 02, 2004 4:46 AM

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The pic of the first node is really wonderful
Left by Stefano Demiliani on Sep 02, 2004 4:49 AM

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Yes, happy birthday ;-) And about the same topic, the first cybercafe has just turned 10. The Cafe Cyberia, funded in London by Eva Pascoe has received an award from Yahoo! as the Best Cybercafe in the world, among 1,000 competitors from 111 countries. Read more:
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6118478&section=news
Left by Christophe Lauer [MS] on Sep 02, 2004 6:49 AM

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Left by Tech Guru on Sep 02, 2004 10:16 AM

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Interesting... thanks Christophe
Left by Stefano Demiliani on Sep 03, 2004 12:42 AM

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