Toward the end of 1969's summer - just a few weeks after the moon landings, couple of days after Woodstock and a month prior to the premiere on The Monty Python's Flying Circus - a large gray metal box was shipped at the home of Leonard Kleinrock, a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles. It was about the exact size and shape of the refrigerator in your home and, outwardly at the very least it had just the same amount of appeal. However, Kleinrock was ecstatic with it: a photo from that time shows him standing alongside it, wearing a typical late-60s dark brown tie with brown pants smiling like proud father. If he had attempted to describe his enthusiasm to anyone other than his closest associates They probably would not have been able to comprehend. Only a few outsiders who were aware about the box's existence could not even figure out its name the correct way: it was an IMP which stands for "interface message processor", however, in the year prior to the year in which the Boston firm had been awarded the contract for its construction and its state senator from that area, Ted Kennedy, sent an email praising its interfaith spirit as it was"the very world's first "interfaith message processor". Naturally the machine that arrived at the office of Kleinrock wasn't an instrument that could foster peace between the most revered religions around the globe. It was more important than the fact that it was. It's difficult to be certainty when internet was first created since no one is able to be sure what exactly the internet actually is. (This isn't an issue of philosophy as well as one of egos as a number of those who contributed to the internet are eager to claim credit.) The 29th of October, 1969, which will be 40 years old this week - holds an enviable claim of being the day that was, as Kleinrock says in the present, "the day the infant internet uttered its first words". In the evening, at 10. 30pm when Kleinrock's students and fellow professors gathered in the halls, an IMP linked to an IMP and was in contact with another IMP connected to a second computer hundreds of kilometers away from Stanford Research Institute. Stanford Research Institute, and an student identified as Charley Kline tapped out a message. Samuel Morse, sending the first telegraph message , 125 years earlier, used the rather ominous title: "What hath God wrought? The task of Kline was to connect remote to LA in to the Stanford machine There was no chance to play the portentous game the instructions he gave him included typing the command"LOGIN. to say that all history is past is the most insincere of clichés However, trying to convey the enormity of what happened the day of the event and what has transpired throughout the decades that followed it is an endeavor that quickly exposes the limitations of the language. It's fascinating to examine the extent of change in the field of computing and the internet since 1969, compared with what has changed in the world of political systems. Take a look at the tiniest snapshot of what's happened in the world in the years since 1969 The Vietnam war came to an end The cold war intensified before settling down as did The Berlin Wall fell; communism was wiped out; Islamic fundamentalism surged. But nothing has the capacity to make individuals in their 40s, 30s or 50s feel old in the light of the exponential growth in the use of computers and internet technology, as well as the worldwide web. Twelve years after Charley's first message on Arpanet network, in the way it was known at the time it was just 213 computers connected to the network. However, fourteen years later there were 16 million users online and email was starting to revolutionize the world. the first usable internet browser didn't launch until 1993 however by 1995 we had Amazon in 1998, Google and, by the year 2001 we had Wikipedia in 2001, which at that at that point, it was estimated that there would be 513 million online. The current number is closer to 1.7 billion.
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