On Aug. 27, 1976, a team led by Don Nielson, then assistant director of telecommunications at Menlo Park engineering firm SRI International, drove a specially equipped van 6½ miles south and parked at Zott’s. Forty years later, people read the news on their phones, book beds in strangers’ homes, stalk their friends on Facebook, post videos on YouTube, program their vacuuming robots and fitness-tracking watches, and chase invisible monsters through city streets.
40 Years On, The Internet Transmits Every Aspect Of Our Lives
By JESSICA FLOUM, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sat, 08/27/2016 - 4:39pm
Topics: don nielson menlo park sri international zott s facebook youtube nielson s transmission control protocol larry downes andersen consulting accenture cnn gore uunet psinet sprint national center supercomputing applications university illinois urbana-champaign marc andreessen world wide web tim berners-lee andreessen s netscape august larry page sergey brin stanford bennett despite digital equipment corp dec s frustrated vixie maps wallace s cyber promotions aug i internet andreessen web mosaic years people network system created led company team google mail connection computers connecting browser job stored service kicked spam started program
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