{"id":1140,"date":"2009-09-02T23:09:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T03:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2022-12-30T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T17:16:51","slug":"internet-over-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/internet-over-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Over the Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kalynskitchen.com\/kalyns-kitchen-turns-eight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-111048 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Internet Over the Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/bday_cake-1.gif?resize=69%2C75&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Internet Over the Hill\" width=\"69\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/bday_cake-1.gif?resize=69%2C75&amp;ssl=1 69w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/bday_cake-1.gif?resize=139%2C150&amp;ssl=1 139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 69px) 100vw, 69px\" \/><\/a>The Internet is 40 years old. On September 2nd 1969, in a lab at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucla.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of California, Los Angeles<\/a>, two computers passed test data through a 15-foot gray cable. The network became known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARPANET\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ARPANET<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sri.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford Research Institute<\/a> joined the network a month later followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsb.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC Santa Barbara<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utah.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Utah<\/a> by year&#8217;s end, and the Internet was born.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet turned 40 years old on September 2nd 1969. It was born in a lab at UCLA when two computers passed test data through a 15-foot gray cable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3216,161,77,15,3221],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-3216","tag-birthday","tag-internet","tag-networking","tag-ucla"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119214,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/119214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}