[LINK] Happy Birthday Internet +1

[Jan Whitaker]

[this was sent out on the American day, so I just got it. Jan]

>Subject: [Fwd: Happy Birthday, Internet!]
>
>for the 2nd of September.
>
>It all started 40 years ago today, when a couple of computers were
>connected by a long gray cable in order to pass some data.  The
>experiment was funded by the Advanced Projects Research Agency
>(ARPA) and the project was called the ARPANET.  By the end of the
>year, four sites were connected.  Today it's hundreds of millions of
>computers and we call it the Internet.  National Geographic has a
>story and some video
><http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090831-internet-40th-video-ap.html>
>
>Wikipedia has a nice timeline for the ARPANET
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET>


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