Couldn't imagine my life without it now.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- A computer expert said Thursday marks the 40th birthday of the Internet heralded by two computers at California schools connecting for the first time.
Leonard Kleinrock told CNN he was a professor of computer science at the University of California-Los Angeles on Oct. 29, 1969, when the school's host computer was connected to a counterpart at Stanford University's Stanford Research Institute.
"I basically supervised the creation of the Internet at the first node, both in the first connection and the very first message," Kleinrock, 75, said.
"When the host computers talked to each other, I like to say the Internet uttered its first words on that day," he added.
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