40 years of the internet.
Forty years of the internet: how the world changed for ever
Internet at 40 In 1969 a student typed ‘LO’ on a computer - and the internet was born
Oliver Burkeman
This is my favourite "history of the internet" I think. Mainly because even though it's quite long it;s really short
Towards the end of the summer of 1969 – a few weeks after the moon landings, a few days after Woodstock, and a month before the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus – a large grey metal box was delivered to the office of Leonard Kleinrock, a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles. It was the same size and shape as a household refrigerator, and outwardly, at least, it had about as much charm. But Kleinrock was thrilled: a photograph from the time shows him standing beside it, in requisite late-60s brown tie and brown trousers, beaming like a proud father.
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