Happy 40th birthday, dear Internet

The first message sent across Arpanet, forty years to the day, gave meaning to a virtual environment — the Internet.

The exact date of the birth of the Internet is not certain but the first message to be sent and received in the virtual world on 29 October 1969 gave literal meaning to the Internet's birth.

In 1969, the US Department of Defense commissioned the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, known as Arpanet, initiated a program to research a communication and command network that could withstand a nuclear attack.

Some historians believe Arpanet, the defense computer network, was the inception of a life changing, economy altering, easy to access, fast and unlimited database called the Internet.

The global system of interconnected computer networks started life with the connection of two computers at the University of California to form the world's first successful packet-switched wide area computer network.

The system initiated a new flexibly formed network structure for computer resource sharing and in a matter of 40 years changed lives.

People do everything via the Internet, from buying and selling stocks to marriage and divorce. Politics and media cannot evade transparency and people's concentration. Now, after four decades, the Internet has worked its way into every aspect of our lives.

Source: PressTV.
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