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Internet birthday a local affair
Other Topics, posted by Editor, The Almanac Online, on Oct 29, 2009 at 2:05 pm

An SRI computer was at one end and a UCLA computer at the other in the first attempt, forty years ago today, to log in to a computer from a remote site. Now, Oct. 29 is thought of as the official birthday of the Internet.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, October 29, 2009, 11:05 AM

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Posted by Alan Miller, a resident of the Atherton: other neighborhood, on Oct 29, 2009 at 2:05 pm

... and ARPANET would have died without Al Gore's efforts to continue funding it. However, he didn't "invent the internet", he just produced it...

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