<nettime> 30 years

["nettime's_flying_birthday_committee" <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, INTERNET:

 Thirty years ago, on Sept. 2, 1969, UCLA graduate students linked some
computers to share information in an act that many now call the birth of
the Internet. Among the students were Vinton Cerf and Jonathan Postel,
both of whom later created fundamental elements of today's Internet. "We
didn't think of this as a key event in any historical sense," one of the
pioneers recalled.  "We didn't even have a camera." 


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