The Internet Turns 40
The Internet just had its 40th birthday.
What do you get the international public computer network that has everything for its birthday?
The Internet turned 40 on October 29. And like most parents, the Internet’s father, professor Leonard Kleinrock, is very proud of what it has accomplished in all its 40 years.
Some things it never saw coming – Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogging – and there are some things he’s excited about accomplishing.
“The net is penetrating every aspect of our lives,” Kleinrock said to a room of about 200 people at UCLA to mark the birthday, and an equal number watching online. “The next step is to move it into the real world. The Internet will be present everywhere. I will walk into a room and it will know I am there. It will talk back to me.”
That’s quite a stretch from 1969, when Kleinrock led a team at UCLA and got one computer to “talk” to another.
Has your business evolved and accomplished almost as much as the Internet? On your company’s birthdays, what do you remember from “the good ‘ol days”?
