Internet pioneer and UCLA computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock displays the Internet’s first router, or “switch” — known as an Interface Message Processor — and describes the process of connecting it with UCLA’s host computer, leading to the first-ever Internet message sent on October 29, 1969. For more information visit: www.newsroom.ucla.edu
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December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
al gore invented the internet
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
Wow…cool!
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
Amazing, it certainly should be in a museum, an amazing piece of IT history!
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
is it still there?
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
This is just an amazing piece of our history, and I’m glad to see it’s still around and wasn’t destroyed
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
The internet was created in a mountain cave of Afghanistan by Osama Bin Laden.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
Yeah. Progression at its finest.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
Crazy how a modern 1U rack-mounted router can outperform this thing by 10,000 times.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
Yea, It was definitely Al Gore. check his wikipedia for the reference
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
Wrong. CERN helped develop the first software web browser…by no means the first one, but one that became most famous first…
The internet existed LONG before that
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
Internet != World Wide Web.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
ALL HAIL GOD
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
the first VOIP, suck it skype
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
yeah that’s actually true, al gore was the first internet router.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
This guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about. The first internet router was Al Gore.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
fuck linksys i want me one of those
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
@DavidShatto
it actually didn’t. the web started at CERN, in switzerland.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
too bad the other end was at stanfurd. wouldve been cool if it was between LA and Cal.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
DAMNIT Leonard, we need moar internets!
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
Send this to the Smithsonian, please.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
I have the same mini pc, im not braggin im just saying
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
fuck you UCLA! that’s where my ass began….
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
I can fit routers in my pocket now, nice advancement there. lol
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
Do geeks still hang out in the CS library?
December 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
“That’s where it all began”!