The Internet Was Born On This Day Fifty Years Ago – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

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From the U.S. Department of State:

On October 29, 1969, researchers working under the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency sent the first host-to-host message between laboratories at the University of California Los Angeles and the Stanford Research Institute. This marked the birth of the Internet as we know it. Today, more than half the world’s population is online and the Internet contributes trillions to the global economy.

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