The Internet at 40: 'Net pioneer still surprised by online world
ComputerWorld
Can you remember a time when you didn't watch videos of silly cats on YouTube, or didn't buy everything from books to car parts to clothes online? What about mail? You know, the stuff that came in paper envelopes with little postage stamps? Forty years, on Sept. 2, 1969, computer scientists at UCLA created a network connection between two computers. They set up the first node of what has become today's Internet.
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