AllThingsD » UCLA http://allthingsd.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:53:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 How Old Is This Internet Thing, Again? http://allthingsd.com/20090904/how-old-is-this-internet-thing-again/ http://allthingsd.com/20090904/how-old-is-this-internet-thing-again/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:44:59 +0000 Marisa Taylor http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=15032 Poor Al Gore has been teased mercilessly for supposedly claiming he invented the Internet.

But that’s not the only portion of cyber-history that’s in dispute.

Media outlets are celebrating Sept. 2 as the 40th anniversary of the day the Internet was invented. Security company Symantec (SYMC) even chose to ring the day in by creating a top-10 list of the most notorious online threats, with No. 1 as 2000’s “I Love You” worm, which infected an estimated 5 million computers.

UCLA’s engineer school, on the other hand, is recognizing Oct. 29 as the 40th anniversary. That’s where computer-science professor Leonard Kleinrock and his team were credited with sending the first computer-to-computer messages.

Well, which is it?

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