On this day in 1969 the first permanent ARPANET link was established and put into service. ARPANET or Advanced Research Projects Agency Network was an early computer network that used packet-switching and the protocol suite TCP/IP, technologies that became the foundation of the modern Internet. It was developed by computer scientist J.C.R. Licklider, Robert Taylor and many other researchers of the 1960s for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA. On November 21st, 1969 it was used to connect a computer at UCLA with another from the Stanford Research Institute. The following month, the entire four-node network was established.
For an interesting and historical personal insight on the foundling Internet, read Cliff Stoll’s book; The Cuckoo’s Egg.
About this same time, I got a small Tandy pc, 715kb memory and 5.25″ floppies. and thought i was on trend.
useful post.