The Internet Turns 40

According to an e-mail a colleague of mine received from Mashable, a blog devoted to social media trends and topics, today is the 40th anniversary of the Internet…sort of. The post reads, in part:

But on October 29, 1969, the first two nodes of ARPANET were interconnected between UCLA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and SRI International (SRI) in Menlo Park, California. It took 12 years for 213 computers to get linked in the network.

ARPANET eventually evolved into the Internet we know and love today. To a 30-year-old like me, that seems like a long time ago. But, obviously, it’s not. In that short period of time, the Internet has become a can’t-live-without-it ubiquitous aspect of our lives — including the material handling industry. From retooled Web sites that allow customers to find you more easily to complete online stores to newer services like YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, the Internet has changed the face of business. In less than 40 years. Pretty amazing stuff. Read more here.

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