by Rick Johnson
When you were a baby, life was simple,
but now that you've grown up things have become much more complicated!
This month the Internet celebrates it's 30th birthday. Back on Sept. 2, 1969, a small crowd gathered inside professor Len Kleinrock's lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he and his team succeeded in hooking up a
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computer to a refrigerator-sized switch or router, known as a Interphase Message Processor. In Kleinrock's words, "So at that time you had a computer talking to a switch for the very first time, and without that you could not have computer talking to computer."
Some regard the real birth of the Internet was a few days later, on October 20, 1969, More...
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