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Old 29 October 2009, 06:55 AM
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Glasses Leonard Kleinrock: Mr. Internet

The Internet, like victory, has many fathers. One of the best known is Leonard Kleinrock, a computer science professor at UCLA. He was in the campus computer lab 40 years ago, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1969. At 10:30 p.m., he and his colleagues were working on a computer the size of an old-fashioned phone booth when they sent the first computer message.

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Computer Internet Turns 40 Today: First Message Crashed System

Everyone surfing for last-minute Halloween costumes and pictures of black Lolcats today — what you might call the 40th anniversary of the Internet — can give thanks to the simple network message that started it all: "lo."

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