Arpanet Anniversary

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10/30/2009

Oct. 30, 2009

Arpanet Anniversary

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Forty years ago this week, the first information was transmitted across the ARPANET, a test message routed from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute. Though the message sent on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1969 was incomplete -- the system crashed after the 'L'and 'O' of 'LOGIN' were transmitted to SRI -- that packet-switched transmission became the basis of much of our modern era of communications. In this segment, Ira talks with internet pioneer Leonard Kleinrock about that first transmission and what networked computing has become.

Produced by Flora Lichtman, Correspondent and Managing Editor, Video

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Leonard Kleinrock
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Oct. 30, 2009