40 years Internet anniversary

Some of us may be missing that on October 29 is an anniversary of Internet. Internet was found by Leonard Kleinrock 40 years ago and I think he was never thinking that his finding will grow very fast in years. He also never thinks that 40 year later some internet companies such as Google, Yahoo, You Tube, Twitter, or Facebook will dominate the traffic in the internet today.

According to the study done by Arbor Networks and the University of Michigan, there are 30 huge internet companies in 2009 and dominate the traffic in the internet. Research for two years analyzing more than 256 exabytes of data traffic on the 110 cable operators, transit backbones, regional networks and content providers around the world, and get that 30 "giant hyper" responsible for 30 percent of traffic on the Internet.

Back to the history of internet finding, On October 29, 1969, Kleinrock led a team which can make a computer "talk" with others in the research section. Kleinrock driven by the belief that computers are designed to be able to talk to one another to produce a simple network, such as the use of the phone. From the picture above, Leonard Kleinrock, a computer scientist, shows the first device to connect computers in a network, which later became forerunners of the Internet. Kleinrock worked at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. Photos provided Kleinrock, but the location of capture date is not mentioned.

Key in the exchange of data between one computer and another computer is to solve the digital code and make it as separate packages. The first internet was named as ARPANET and used for military. Experiment fails to connect initially ARPANET. Kleinrock team tries to send data between computers on the ARPANET and successful. A total of two computers at two other universities are also connected at the end of 1969. This is the initial impression of the growing Internet.

Now, we are still seeing the developing of internet day by day, and I think nobody can guess what will happen in the internet for years due to technology now is also integrated with internet as well.

Photo: AFP