Happy Birthday to the Internet
The Internet has turned 37 years old today.
"After much work, the first node went live at UCLA on October 29, 1969 on what would be called the ARPANET, one of the "eve" networks of today's Internet. Following on from this, the British Post Office, Western Union International and Tymnet collaborated to create the first international packet switched network, referred to as the International Packet Switched Service (IPSS), in 1978. This network grew from Europe and the US to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
PS: The WWW didn't arrive until the 90's. But email and usenet (newgroup) communication was around for decades before the WWW.
"After much work, the first node went live at UCLA on October 29, 1969 on what would be called the ARPANET, one of the "eve" networks of today's Internet. Following on from this, the British Post Office, Western Union International and Tymnet collaborated to create the first international packet switched network, referred to as the International Packet Switched Service (IPSS), in 1978. This network grew from Europe and the US to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
PS: The WWW didn't arrive until the 90's. But email and usenet (newgroup) communication was around for decades before the WWW.