Birthdays: James Boswell, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Keats,
Sir Edmund Halley, Louis Blanc, Fanny Brice, Joseph Goebbels, Richard Dreyfus,
Zoot Sims, Winona Ryder, Jesse Barfield, Kate Jackson, Bill Maudlin, Akim
Tamiroff, Ralph Bakshi is 76, Denis Potvin, Neal Hefti-composer of the theme
song for TV shows like Batman and the Odd Couple.
1923- The musical Running Wild opened on Broadway,
introducing the dance craze the Charleston.
1969-
THE BIRTH OF THE INTERNET- After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Defense
Department asked the Rand Corporation to create a communication system that
could survive Russian atomic bombs. They conceived of a “net” of computers all
in communication with another around the world. Because there was no center, a
bomb could not knock out the entire system.
In the basement of UCLA’s Boelter Hall, Lick Licklider,
Vincent Cerf, Robert Kahn, Lawrence Roberts and Bob Taylor set up the first
call to Stanford. “ We typed the “L” and we asked on the phone “ Did you see
the “L”? “Yes, we see the “L,” was the response. Then we typed O and asked Did
you see the O?” Yes, we see the O” was the response. Then we typed G, and then
the system crashed!” But when they rebooted, and the system sprung to life
again. The people at UCLA were able to type in LOG, to which the Stanford folks
replied IN.
They
called it ARPANET- Advanced Research Projects Agency-NET, a few years later
Internet. By 1978 the Defense Department didn’t want to run the thing anymore
so they offered to turn over the entire Internet to ATT for free. AT&T said
no thanks, we just don’t see the value in it. In 1992 the US government made
the Internet public and the rush was on.
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