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Nov 3, 2009 

NPR: Internet: 40 Years Later, Looking Back At Its Birth

For the complete report from NPR click on this linkForty years ago this past week, a message was sent across ARPANET, the computer network developed by the Defense Department's Advanced Projects Agency. Many people consider that the day the Internet was born. For our series "The Net at 40," Guy Raz profiles the people who worked to make that transmission happen, as well as the two university lab students who sent the first message. Their goal? Type the simple word "login."
"The Internet had become a reality".

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