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Happy 40th Birthday, Internet! Five Milestones<br />

in the Ever-Evolving History of the Web<br />

By Stuart Fox<br />

October 29, 2009<br />

Your Daddies<br />

A group of BBN programmers, the builders of Arpanet.<br />

Yes, hard to believe, but it was 40 years ago today that the first two nodes of what<br />

would become Arpanet connected, thus beginning the Internet As We Know It. In<br />

the ensuing four decades, the Internet would change our world as profoundly as<br />

radio and the printing press had before it. So to <strong>ce</strong>lebrate, we've compiled five<br />

milestones in the Internet's young life.<br />

--- CE Note: by today‟s date <strong>2020</strong> that makes it 51 yrs ago --<br />

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