The Internet at 40: History Began With Its First Crash - PC World -

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Why do we today celebrate today--October 29--as the Internet's 40's birthday? Because on this day in 1969, what would later became known as the Internet was used for the very first time--and crashed. Here is what happened: The first network had four ...
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