Birth of Internet

[Mntsnow]

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the birth of the Internet at UCLA. UCLA will celebrate this historic event with an exciting, insightful daylong forum on Friday, Oct. 29. Many of the Internet's early pioneers, as well as some of today's most thought-provoking and influential industry leaders and rising stars will offer their perspectives on how the Internet came to be what it is today, and what it will be like tomorrow.

"The Internet's founding fathers, its current heavy hitters and its young visionaries will all be in one room together to talk about this technology's impact on society," said Leonard Kleinrock, a computer scientist in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Read more at CCnews (http://www.ccnmag.com//?nav=headlines&id=3238)

[mickwish]

Ah, to be a fly on the wall, there!! :D

Wonder if they'll have a live web broadcast, eh? :D No mention of one, though. :(

And to think they'll all actually travel to be in the same room, and not do this via the internet? :o Amazing. :p

Cheers
Mick

[davidw]

I didn't think it had been that long, maybe about 32 or 33 years, but 35... Congratulations Internet!

[Win2Kuser]

I always thought the internet was originally invented by the military as a way of sharing information between units.

hmmm.

[ThRoNkA]

Anyone know if Al Gore will be there? :P

[davidw]

LOL, now that was actually funny.

[MDS]

I would love to be there and hear some of the history first hand.

[mholtum]

I thought Gore invented the Internet. WTF?

[Centurion]

35 years! - well - that means I was a kid then - and the arguement I had with one Computer science grad in "79 was a moot point. Maybe he should have presented a better arguement - or maybe the keyboards could have been better than broken all the time! heavens - I coulda been a geek - on the front side of the wave!

Instead of kicking the Babyboomers in the butt!

Centurion