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October 18, 2011 12:08 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9VYWQo_Pn94/account-of-the-first-ever-internet-demo-1972.html
Account of the first-ever Internet demo, 1972
Ars Technica's Matthew Lasar has a great potted history of the 1972 first International Conference on Computer Communication in Washington, DC, where, for the first time, ARPANet (the first iteration of the Internet) was demonstrated to the public: Monday morning October 24 arrived. Conference attendees meandered into the exhibition. One sat down at a computer, [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9VYWQo_Pn94/account-of-the-first-ever-internet-demo-1972.html
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