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Article: Internet turns 40 with birthday bash.
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- Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Byline: AFP
LOS ANGELES: Technology and media stars, pundits and entrepreneurs joined the Internet s father on Thursday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his culture-changing child.
"It s the 40th year since the infant Internet first spoke," said University of California, Los Angeles, professor Leonard Klein rock, who headed the team that first linked computers online in 1969.
Kleinrock led an anniversary event at the UCLA campus that blended reminiscence of the Internet s past with debate about its future.
"There is going to be an ongoing controversy about where we have been and where we are going," said Arianna Huffington, ...