DAWN TO DUSK NEWS: The room where the internet was born

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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">From the outside, room 3420 at UCLA's 
Boelter Hall campus looks rather nondescript - housing what looks like a
 large typrwriter and a cupboard stuffed with old electronics.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However, this is in fact the birthplace of the internet - and where the first message was sent from.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">On
 October 29, 1969 at 10:30pm,  Leonard Kleinrock and his team sent a 
message to Stanford University using what we know know as the internet -
 only to find in crash after two letters.</span><br />
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<b>THE BIRTH OF THE INTERNET</b></h3>
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<span id="ext-gen92" style="font-size: 1.2em;">While
 a grad student at MIT, Kleinrock developed a mathematical theory of 
packet switching, where data is broken up into 'packets' that can be 
exchanged over a network to allow users in multiple locations to access 
them.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The research was 
spotted by the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency 
(ARPA—later named DARPA), which wanted to use it to distribute academic 
papers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It wanted to test a 
network, and a contract was awarded to a team of computer engineers at 
Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), who built the Interface Message 
Processor, which was similar to the routers still used today.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The first node was placed at UCLA. the second at Stanford.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">the first message was supposed to be 
'log in', but their first success also spelled their first failure – the
 system crashed after the 'L' and 'O' were transmitted.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">About an hour later, having recovered from the crash, the SDS Sigma 7 computer sent a full 'login'.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 first permanent ARPANET link was then established on November 21, 1969,
 between the IMP (interface message processor) at UCLA and the IMP at 
the Stanford Research Institute.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">By
 December of 1969, four nodes were permanently installed at UCLA, 
Stanford Research Institute, University of Utah, and University of 
California at Santa Barbara. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">By 1975 there were 57 IMPs. By 1981 there were 213, and it has continued to explode inpopularity ever since.</span><br />
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A detailed view of UCLA's Interface Message 
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A detailed view of UCLA's Interface Message 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'How
 many revolutions can you think about where you can see—within a few 
feet!—where it began? This machine is where the internet breathed to 
life, spoke its first words,' Leonard Kleinrock, the computer scientist 
for whom the Kleinrock Center for Internet Studies is named, told Gizmodo.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However, Kleinrock admits the machines were almost lost.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">There are currently only two IMPs still in existence. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">UCLA's IMP was replaced by new technology in 1982 and moved to a staff break room. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He also managed to save a SDS Sigma 7 computer, the refrigerator-sized machine that was used to host that first message.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 restored room was first opened in 2011, after being converted to a 
computer lab for current students, and was restored by the original team
 - who even matched the paint for photographs.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We didn't know what we were doing,' says Kleinrock. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We didn't even take a photo.' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The only mention of the world-changing experiment was a small item in the school paper.</span><br />
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UCLA's Interface Message Processor (IMP) is 
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Professor Leonard Kleinrock, Distinguished 
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A visitor compares modern-day 3420 Boelter Hall,
 the birthplace of the Internet, with an archival photograph during the 
grand opening of the Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site at UCLA in Los 
Angeles, California October 29, 2011. The first message to pass over the
 ARPANET was sent from 3420 Boelter Hall on October 29, 1969 led by UCLA
 professor Leonard Kleinrock and his team. The ARPANET evolved into the 
Internet we use today. REUTERS/Fred Prouser (UNITED STATES - Tags: 
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A visitor attends the grand opening of the 
Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive in 3420 Boelter Hall, the 
birthplace of the Internet at UCLA in Los Angeles, California October 
29, 2011. The first message to pass over the ARPANET was sent from 3420 
Boelter Hall on October 29, 1969 led by UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock
 and his team. The recreated lab features a replica of the Sigma 7 
computer (L), a teletype (C) similar to one used to communicate with the
 SIGMA 7 computer, which was connected to UCLA's Interface Message 
Processor (R). The ARPANET evolved into the Internet we use today.</div>
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The room where the internet was born

From the outside, room 3420 at UCLA's Boelter Hall campus looks rather nondescript - housing what looks like a large typrwriter and...