Tag: ARPANET

Share If you take a look across the top of your keyboard, you will notice an invaluable work of design that has been recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator for the Department of Architecture and Design, decided that '@' was due for some institutional gravitas, and pitched it to MoMA's design and architecture acquisitions committee. Why ...

UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock headlined a significant birthday gathering today, although some folks may dispute the reason for the celebration. The festivities commemorated the 40th anniversary of the day he and a team of researchers first transferred data between two behemoth computers using a 15-foot cable. According to Yahoo!, Kleinrock said, "It's the 40th year since the infant Internet ...

It's hard to believe that just 40 years ago, the Internet was but a glimmer in the eye of researchers at UCLA. On September 2nd, 1969, Len Kleinrock and his team successfully passed test data between two giant computers via a 15-foot cable. This small victory was just the beginning of what would eventually become Arpanet, the government project that eventually led to the creation of the Internet. ...