The Birth of the Internet
by The PerfessorTags: The Internet
Walt is going to wet himself when he sees this post...
So, it is 1969. Charles Manson started his killing rampage, the NY Mets won the World Series (for the first time), a man walked on the Moon, and the music festival at Woodstock left a generation stoned for years. Oh yeah, that was the year that the Internet was born.
It’s hard to appreciate that this mess of pipes that’s turned all of us into nerds that salivate over videos about the birth of the internet and allowed us to look at the menu before we get to the restaurant all began with a modest, military-sanctioned hook-up between two computers, one in UCLA, the other at Stanford University.
Seriously, how cool is this?
The Perfessor
November 27th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I didn't hear any mention of Al Gore in that, so the guy must be leaving out something.