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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Internet Turns 40: First Message Crashed System


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Forty years after the first network message of "lo" crossed California (pictured, a mainframe computer later used to send the first person-to-person network email in 1971), the Internet has transformed how people live, experts said in October 2009.

Photograph courtesy Dan Murphy via BBN Technologies, Inc.