How the Internet Changed History

How the Internet Changed History — page 1
CHAPTER 1 THE INTERNET IS BORN he date was October 29 1969 At 10 30 p m Dr Leonard Kleinrock a professor at the University of California Los Angeles UCLA stood in his laboratory surrounded by fellow professors and students He connected a computer to a large metal box the size and shape of a refrigerator The box was an interface message processor IMP At the same time several hundred miles away at Stanford Research Institute in California a second computer was connected to another IMP Long distance telephone circuits connected the two IMPs to other each