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Computer speak.


Everybody sing: Happy birthday, dear Internet, happy birthday to you.

A forum to celebrate the Internet's 35th anniversary is scheduled for Oct. 29 at UCLA, the first base of the computing network ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork) The research network funded by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The software was developed by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), and Honeywell 516 minicomputers were the first hardware used as , which later evolved into the digital ocean most of us now surf daily.

Leonard Kleinrock, now a computer scientist in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science School of Engineering and Applied Science is the name of several engineering schools at universities in the United States.
  • School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University, founded in 1896.
, led the team of engineers that on Sept. 2, 1969 completed the first network connection between two computers--just weeks after man first walked on the moon. A second base was built at the Stanford Research Institute Stanford Research Institute - Former name of SRI International. , and the first "host-to-host" message was sent on Oct. 29, 1969.

Attending the forum with Kleinrock will be Internet pioneers Lawrence Roberts, Robert Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf. Representatives from Broadcom, Microsoft, Intel, HP and MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device.

(2) (Microwave Communications Inc.
 will also participate.

Anybody remember those guys who walked on the moon?
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Title Annotation:35th anniversary of internet launch
Author:Silkin, Steve
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
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Date:Sep 20, 2004
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