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The internet recently completed forty glorious years of its existence. It all started when a 15 foot cable was used to connect two computers that communicated with one another at the University of Los Angeles in California on September 2^nd, 1969. This network was later developed into a university network.

A major milestone was achieved on October 29^th, 1969 when two computers in geographically distant locations were able to communicate. This moment is considered as the true birth of the internet. When data was sent from one machine to the other, it was transmitted in encrypted “packets”. This data was de-encrypted and the user at the other end received it. This is still the basis of today’s data transfers.

In 1989 a paper was written by Tim Berners Lee where he envisaged a “World Wide Web” – a system of interlinked documents accessed via the internet. This laid the foundation for the internet that we know and use today.

Today it is difficult to imagine life without the internet now offering unlimited broadband, which supports electronic file transfers, file sharing, online chats, commercial and social networking, gaming, publishing, video on demand, and what not. It seems unbelievable that something so incredibly complex has had such humble beginnings, and that too only forty years back.