It was 40 years ago on this day, October 29, 1969 when one IMP at UCLA communicated with another IMP at Stanford University [1]......and the internet that was born a little over a month earlier began communicating.
Listen to Professor Leonard Kleinrock aka Father of the Internet describe that night with a crackle in his voice [2] and how he was 'shown the door' by AT&T as they felt they could not monetise his inventions. Big mistake!! Thanks to Academia, we have the internet!! Something that many of us take for granted everyday. The devices we use today to communicate, sometimes lodged as an appendage on our hips, is a far cry from those earlier computers of 1969. Email, a legacy application from the early Web 1.0 days is still around and withstanding the onslaught of Web 2.0 applications vis-a-vis Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc.....The semantic Web is around the corner we are told........holograms, et al!! Well its only 15 years since we used the Mosaic browser to access single-dimensional webpages..........perhaps Web 3.0 is closer than one thinks!! - B [1] http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/first_words.html [2] http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/qpodcast_20091029_22213.mp3