Big thank you to the nerds .....40 years ago today with no fanfare or press release's and only 20 people in attendence,Len Kleinrock and the nerds of UCLA began a test on a system of interconnecting two computers to transfer data directly between them thru a 15 foot grey cable.That was the begining of the Arpanet network project which was soon joined by the Stanford Research institute,UC of Santa Barbara and the University of Utah.Over the following years in the obscurity of research and experimentations without the constraints of commercial intrests or govt. entitys,many more nerds brought more inovations and ideas to the program.until in the early 70's when the TCP/IP communications protacals were introdroduced which allowed multiple networks to be connected,and the internet was truely born.Then came the concept of E:mail useing those networks and protacals which lead to the need in the 80's of a addresseing with suffixs like .com/.org etc.
And still most people did not know what it was,how to use it or even have access to it.Then in the early 90's British physicist Tim Bernerslee the "web" protocals as a subset of the internet that makes it easeir to link networked resources from across far locations around the world(that now well known prefix for World Wide Web)......And then released it to the world for free!!With that final piece in place and the newsize,power and availability of personel home computers,better international communications systems,main frame system server hubs and the peoples awarness of the abilitys of the technology....the internet,the web and cyber space took off with a vengence.....with a explossion of new innovations,programing,applications and a plethara of new ,com/.net sites.....Like Poker
for us to enjoy.
the day the nerds started the net
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