#65: The Internet turns 40

It was 1969 when two computers at University of California, Los Angeles, exchange meaningless data in first test of Arpanet, an experimental military network. This network would then became the Internet.

Since then, this huge network had a lot of transformation that most of the inventors would ever imagine. And as the Internet grows exponentially, so as the barriers as discussed in this posting.

Goofy videos weren't on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use applications that have drawn more than a billion people online.

A variety of factors are to blame. Spam and hacking attacks force network operators to erect security firewalls. Authoritarian regimes block access to many sites and services within their borders. And commercial considerations spur policies that can thwart rivals, particularly on mobile devices like the iPhone.

For the last 40 years, we've seen great innovations most notably the launching of video sharing youtube and the development of social networking such as myspace and facebook. The key milestone in the development of the Internet is discussed in this article.

So what's the next big thing that will hit the Internet past social networking and video sharing? The answer could be somewhere in an obscure garage where innovative teenagers endlessly churning thousands of lines of codes.