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Happy 40th birthday to the Internet! While its true moment of birth has been debated, many accounts put the date at Sept. 2, 1969, when a team of engineers developed the ARPANET.

By Sharon S. Schwartzman, Editor-in-chief | Updated on September 30, 2009

Happy 40th birthday to the Internet! While its true moment of birth has been debated (as has been who created it–Al Gore notwithstanding–or even what it is exactly), many accounts put the date at Sept. 2, 1969, when a team of engineers developed the ARPANET. On that day, the scientists established the first network connection between two computers, introducing a new method of global communications. Most likely, they didn’t have a clue about what was to come.

And to some extent, we still don’t. Hot technologies quickly cool when hotter ones hit the Web. MySpace was all the rage, then Facebook, now Twitter. Who knows what’s next and when?

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