A researcher logs into a computer terminal in any room at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) and connects with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in San Francisco. Millions more logins were made after this one, to millions of other places - but this one, which occurred on October 29, 1969, at 10:30 pm, was the first: the web has its birth certificate.
Gizmodo reporter Matt Novak spoke with computer historian Bradley Fidler of the Stevens Institute about the importance of this record. According to the researcher, "he accurately documents the first remote login between two computers."
"Talked to SRI host to host": In the UCLA operator's registry, the birth of the internet. (Source: UCLA Special Collections)
At the time, the project (called Arpanet) was funded by the Defense (Advanced) Defense Research Projects Agency, known for working with cutting-edge technology. Terminal operators kept a detailed diary of everything that went on, and the log “shows the first successful test of Arpanet's main goal: remote access for any reason between different types of computers, using a highly experimental technology called a packet. that allowed for more distributed forms of networks. ”
Half a century later, the same network, different goals
According to Fidler, if today's equipment can resemble its ancestors, the spirit of the network is completely different. “Your goal is radically diverse. The old Internet and Arpanet we celebrated was a Department of Defense project that tested their usage scenarios in locations that did not matter to military operational readiness: research environments, graduate students, and so on. Today, the internet is a business entity and its new founders originate from Facebook, Google, Tencent and the like. "
A researcher logs into a computer terminal in any room at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) and connects with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in San Francisco. Millions more logins were made after this one, to millions of other places - but this one, which occurred on October 29, 1969, at 10:30 pm, was the first: the web has its birth certificate.Gizmodo reporter Matt Novak spoke with computer historian Bradley Fidler of the Stevens Institute about the importance of this record. According to the researcher, "he accurately documents the first remote login between two computers."
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