Internet Turns 40 Today: First Message Crashed System

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 17:28 in Mathematics & Economics

Forty years after the first simple network message crossed California and crashed the Internet's precursor, the system's current ubiquity leaves at least one of its creators "surprised and totally pleased."

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