[OT] The internet is 40 years old today!

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Fri Oct 30 16:05:58 UTC 2009


Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
> Well data sent between the first two nodes of arpanet which later
> became the internet does seem like the start of the internet.  It was
> not necesarily the start of the web though since that was probably more
> related to http/html in the early 90s.  The web requires the internet,
> but the internet worked fine before the web came along.
>
>    
Here's another article about it:
http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/
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