When was the Internet Born?

By Miss Cellania in Blogs & Internet on Sep 2, 2009 at 12:43 pm

It was 40 years ago today, September 2, 1969 that scientists connected two computers at UCLA with a 15-foot cable and the machines were able to communicate with each other. The test data was meaningless, but the breakthrough eventually led to the formation of the internet, but there were plenty of other milestones. Which date is the birthday of the internet?

September 2, 1969: First time two computers communicated with each other.

Oct 29, 1969: Message sent from computer to computer in different locations.

1971: The first email was sent.

Jan 1, 1983: ARPANET adopted the standard TCP/IP protocol.

March 1989: Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

April 22, 1993: Mosaic became the first web browser.

Which date should we designate as the birthday of the internet? Link -via Buzzfeed

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Tags: anniversary, computer, History, internet, web

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ozoozol
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Well, Mosaic was one of the first (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers)

But I’ll always be partial to lynx…
SimonSays
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 1:29 pm
There a mixing between “network” and “internet”. Although Sept 2 1969 marks the beginning of networked computers, that hardly is the start of the internet, although it was a required step for the internet to appear.

IMHO, Jan 1, 1983 should be day 1, mostly because that’s when TCP/IP was adpted.

The day 2 computers 1st comunicated using TCP/IP and through a router should be regarded as the first internet-like communication, and thus this day should mak the birthdate of the internet.
anon1
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Mosaic wasn’t the first web browser. Not by a long shot.
Christophe
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 2:37 pm
August 9, 2005 at 4:51 pm.

(http://www.neatorama.com/2005/08/09/cool-optical-illusions/)
Geek
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 3:01 pm
What birthday should we assign?

I don’t know, when did Al Gore say he invented it?
Sean D. Freuduh
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 3:19 pm
My vote would be for the day ARPANET came to be.
ozoozol
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Came back to see if my comment had been approved

I second SimonSays’ suggestion. January 1st makes sense, and, more importantly, is easy to remember.
rhonda
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 3:56 pm
didn’t al gore claim to have invented the internet?
ozoozol
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 4:04 pm
rhonda: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
because i think like a child...
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 4:17 pm
so….it was during ’69 that two computers came together?
Steve Jobs
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Why does Al Gore have to rain on my parade…

With Snow Leopard and all; the upcoming iTab.

Lest it’s Bill!!
Steve Jobs
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 4:53 pm
… Global warning and stuff!

Yup yup yup!!

P.s. – Glad he’s off the board!
CE
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Al Gore invented the internet and global warming.
ted
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 7:29 pm
The day the Internet started for me was the day I found Neatorama.
catsvillage
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 7:29 pm
I think some more thinking on when the internet began. The military had been using networking many, many years prior to the application coming to the EDU world.
Wes
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 7:46 pm
“The test data was meaningless, but the breakthrough eventually led to the formation of the internet, but there were plenty of other milestones.”

That’s a lot of buts.
daisychain
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 8:55 pm
i read somewhere that the www was not of an american origin. it’s european, from CERN. would www be the same as “internet”?

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Frau
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 9:57 pm
“Oct 29, 1969: Message sent from computer to computer in different locations.

1971: The first email was sent.
Jan 1, 1983: ARPANET adopted the standard TCP/IP protocol.

March 1989: Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

April 22, 1993: Mosaic became the first web browser.”

August 4, 1997 – Skynet goes online
SimonSays
Sep 3rd, 2009 at 6:29 am
@ Daisychain:

“would www be the same as “internet”?”

No… the www is just one of the applications of the internet. It has a related protocol: HTTP. It has to do with the traffic and presentation of web pages.

E-mail is another application (and it’s protocols, like SMTP & POP). There are many other, but www and e-mail is what interest most people.
Miss Cellania
Sep 3rd, 2009 at 7:18 am
Sean, catsvillage: the 1969 linkup was an ARPA test. It became ARPANET in October of that year when the long-distance connection worked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#Initial_ARPA_deployment

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