CHAPTER 1 The Internet Is Born 8 7 Timeline 6 5 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CONTENTS Creating the Internet Internet for Everyone Changing the World Search Engines Social Sites 6 9 93 CHAPTER 7 Business and Politics CHAPTER 8 The Future 3 ESSENTIAL FACTS 100 GLOSSARY 102 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 104 SOURCE NOTES 106 INDEX 110 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 112
CHAPTER 1 THE INTERNET IS BORN he date was October 29 1969 At 10 30 p m Dr Leonard Kleinrock a professor at the University of California Los Angeles UCLA stood in his laboratory surrounded by fellow professors and students He connected a computer to a large metal box the size and shape of a refrigerator The box was an interface message processor IMP At the same time several hundred miles away at Stanford Research Institute in California a second computer was connected to another IMP Long distance telephone circuits connected the two IMPs to other each
9990199 HE RP 6 In 2007 Dr Kleinrock reenacted how the first Internet communication was made between the Stanford Research Institute and
