Internet Milestone

" Remember life before the Internet. Forty years ago today the world wide web came alive and how life has changed for all the since then William La Jeunesse. Lives in Los Angeles with a look at how it has changed the world. I believe it was forty years old exactly what are we marking that happened forty years ago today William. Well John forty years ago. Well boy who is."

" Brooklyn New York City who like Superman comic books and -- his first radio at age six. We look to be UCLA computer science professor Leonard -- believe that computers should talk to one another. He was and I hit below the -- funding that's -- are right there got funny from our the advanced research arm of the federal government. That was formed after spot it to be the Soviets the -- the governor wanted all these super scientist to talk to one another so they created are by net you still play inclined rock -- the first computer on this -- forty years ago. The professor and you still I was trying to talk to the professor and the computer at stamper and he's trying to type in the word blog and so what professor said -- we got the -- We got the low end of the system crash so the first message on the Internet was low as and lo and behold inquirer October group of people like a UCL yesterday. That was the appropriate to -- message. But what would later become the worldwide web so it started out connecting two computers John and end up connecting billions of people. Like what was it Alexander Graham Bell mister Watson I need you. How did we get from that first message to where we are now. Wondering if you milestones first on 1969 which you remember name within the AFL versus the NFL the -- the miracle Mets Woodstock. The first Armstrong stepping on the moon. The first 747 flight from Seattle to New York. I'm 1971. There were 23 computers around the US mostly universities. First her personal computer 1975. Now in 1987. The Internet had 10000 users users. 1996 it had 40000153. Countries President Clinton got his first email address and the rest of course is history. I think that productivity of the Internet has sent it off the charts and has changed. Who we are who we talked to how we meet what information we read. And really it is of course led the tech revolution and really transformed our lives in ways that we never imagined John for sure we want to mess."