UCLA Prof Recalls Giving Birth to the Internet
It never gets old. More than 42 years after successfully sending a message from one host computer to another, UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock (pictured) still occasionally does media interviews about that historic October 29, 1969 day.
The latest reporter to reminisce with Kleinrock is Australian afternoon radio show host Bernadette Young. The professor recalled that the first-ever Internet-like message was LOL… without the second “L”:
“There was one programmer upstairs… All we wanted to do was to log in from our computer to their computer.
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