"... the day 2 of the ninth month of 1969, at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) the first network interface was connected to a SDS Sigma 7 computer. That day the first node of the Great Network was interlaced.

In a fast succession, in the immediate following months, other three nodes were carried out and connected among them to form the first mesh of the Network. First, the node at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) was connected to the node at UCLA, and the first word ever circulated in the net was sent: LOG-IN. After a month, the node at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) was added to the first two and, again after a month, the node at the University of Utah was connected too. ..."

excerpt from the book The Earth Calendar, which almanac reset to zero the reckoning of the years starting on 1969, the year in which happened the first human landing on the Moon (on 20/07) and the birth of Internet (as said above: on 02/09).




image from the book The Earth Calendar

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