Happy birthday, Internet!!!

The internet turned 40 years old this week. On September 2 1969, a group of computer scientists in Leonard Kleinrock's UCLA lab connected two computer nodes using a Grey cable, signalling the first instance when two seperate computers where connected together for the purpose of information exchange.

Though some may argue that the true birth of the internet only occurred later that year in October when two computers in separate labs (one in UCLA and one in Stanford University) where connected. And the message passed between them? "LO" It was supposed to be "LOGIN" but the system crashed after the letters "L" and "O" where typed in.

Kleinrock and colleagues were working with the government-backed Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), without which we would not be blogging these words today.

Happy 40th Internet, and many more!