SPOTLIGHT October 29 Answer of the Day When was the Internet born? On this date in 1969, the first host-to-host message was sent from professor Leonard Kleinrocks lab at UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute over the ARPANet, the forerunner of the Internet. The ARPANet was made up of Interface Message Processors at those two sites, with two more sites added a short time later, at UCSB and the University of Utah. The major innovation was a distributed network of computers that had no single point of failure. If one computer went down, the network overall still worked. By 1971, the first email program was being used and two years later, the ARPANet went international, when connections were made to Britain and Norway. The @ symbol was adopted in 1972 and a year later 75 percent of ARPANet traffic was email. Quote The day I made that statement about inventing the internet, I was tired because Id been up all night inventing the camcorder. — Al Gore Word of the day scaramouch A stock character in commedia dellarte and pantomime, depicted as a boastful coward or buffoon. (© Houghton Mifflin Company) This week: words you wouldnt want to be called. Previous words: jobsworth, quidnunc, palooka Todays History Republic of Turkey: was established when forces led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the father of modern Turkey, wrested control from the Ottoman Empire (1923) Black Tuesday: the US stock market crashed and the Great Depression began (1929) Star of India: giant star sapphire was stolen, along with other fabulous gems, from the American Museum of Natural History (1964) John Glenn: the first American in orbit took flight aboard the Discovery shuttle, becoming, at 77, the oldest person to visit space (1998) Todays Birthdays James Boswell (1740-1795): biographer of Samuel Johnson; plus, writer Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) Melba Moore (64): R&B singer; musician Peter Green (63) also celebrates his birthday today Dan Castellaneta (52): the voice of Homer Simpson; other performers who share this birth date include Fanny Brice (1892-1951), Richard Dreyfuss (62), Kate Jackson (61), Rufus Sewell and Joely Fisher (both 42), Winona Ryder (38), Tracee Ellis Ross and Gabrielle Union (both 37), Milena Govich (33) and Brendan Fehr (32) Read more: answers/topic/thursday-october-29-2009-from-today-s-highlights-archive#ixzz2j711y94b
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