How long has it been that I've been online? More than a decade?
It's not something I usually think about, but I'm prompted to do so this week, because I recently came across an announcement about a commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the Internet. On Oct. 29, Internet pioneers will gather at UCLA to celebrate the first host-to-host message, sent from UCLA to Stanford.
These places were the first nodes in the network known as ARPANET (forerunner to the Internet).
The researchers at UCLA were trying to login to the Stanford computer. They were supposed to send the letters "log", which would then be completed by the Stanford computer. The latter was supposed to add the letters "in".
It didn't quite turn out that way.
The folks in Northern and Southern California talked to each other by telephone, during the test.
When the UCLA team sent the first letter, "L", they got feedback from Stanford that it had been received.
The sending of "O" worked fine.
But, when they sent the third letter, "G", up north, the Stanford computer crashed.
(And that is how the term, "G-spot" came into being -- no, just kidding.)
BTW, the Internet pioneers at the celebration will include the guys who developed the idea of packet switching (Leonard Kleinrock), pushed the development of ARPANET (Lawrence Roberts), and invented TCP/IP (Robt. Kahn and Vinton Cerf).
[Hey! They forgot Al Gore...] :-)
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Posted by raacluse at October 26, 2004 06:41 PM