"At the time, it would have been hard to predict which of these events 40 years ago would prove to be most momentous:
- Humans step out of a spaceship and walk on the moon. - The Woodstock concert becomes a seminal cultural moment for the baby-boomer generation. - A New York City police raid leads to the Stonewall riots and modern gay-rights movement. - A handful of engineers at UCLA send some data from one computer to another. You may disagree, but in my opinion, it's the last of the list: four decades ago today, the Internet was born." link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10323175-264.html