Last Thursday, the Internet turned 40. It all started when a two character message was sent from a computer at UCLA to another computer at Stanford.
The message was “lo”. It was supposed to be a login command, but the system crashed after just two characters. Still, this was the first data message sent between two networked computers.
From that humble beginning to over one billion people online and over one trillion pages…
I’m certainly impressed, as well as wonderfully fortunate to be able to make a living by working on a few of those trillion.
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