Can you remember a time when you didn't watch videos of silly cats on YouTube, or didn't buy everything from books to car parts to clothes online? What about mail? You know, the stuff that came in paper envelopes with little postage stamps?
Forty years ago Wednesday, something happened that changed the way we shop, do business, learn and stay in touch with relatives and friends. It was Sept. 2, 1969 when computer scientists at UCLA created a network connection between two computers. They set up the first node of what has become today's Internet.
"This was the day that the infant Internet took its first breath of life," said Leonard Kleinrock, a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UCLA and one of the men who enabled two computers to exchange data over a network for the very first time. "It was the first time...this baby came out and looked around and started talking to the world."
The pundits and bloggers have all weighed in with their predictions for 2007, but what about technology's leading pioneers and visionaries? Computerworld's Gary Anthes and Thomas Hoffman asked Vinton Cerf, Robert Metcalfe, Leonard Kleinrock, Charles Feld, Warren Bennis and Robert Lucky three questions each about the big technology stories and surprises of 2006 and 2007.
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