The First Internet Connection Ever Made
October 29, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Networking
During the same year man walked on the moon, the first node of what later became the ARPANET—predecessor to something we all know as the Internet—was set up. UCLA’s Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Leonard Kleinrock, played a big part of this, developing the “basic principles of packet switching” that made such a groundbreaking achievement possible. The dude won a National Medal of Science last year for this, and he’s the one explaining how what’s basically the first internet connection was made in the video below:
n operation that’s done literally millions of times today was much harder to execute way …read more
