The Internet Celebrates 40th Birthday
by Gfool on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Tuesday marks the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Internet in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The 226 million websites now dotting the World Wide Web was an offshoot of an experiment by 20 UCLA engineers, who passed meaningless data from two computers 15 feet apart through a grey cable connection on September 2, 1969. Those two computers were the earliest network then called Advanced Research Projects Agency Network or ARPANET.