Happy 40th birthday to the internet
September 8, 2009
The technology that made the internet possible was first tested by scientists at UCLA 40 years ago last week, paving the way for the creation of the world wide web and the high speed internet we know today.
Although most people didn't become familiar with the internet until the web was invented in the 1990s by English physicist Tim Burners-Lee, scientists at UCLA connected two computers via a simplistic network called ARPANET back in 1969.
Today, broadband internet connections have transformed the internet and the web into a high speed communications network for transmitting and sharing text, photos, video and other kinds of information for all kinds of purposes.
Internet service provider Comcast noted on its blog that when Comcast first launched in 1996, internet speeds maxed out at 1.5 megabits per second, whereas today, users can download at speeds up to 50 Mbps.
Given how much has changed about the internet in the last 40 years, it would be perhaps unfathomable to imagine what the internet will become 40 years from now.
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