To day I visited the Birthplace of the Internet. I actually had no idea the first ARPANET message was sent from UCLA to Stanford! I grew home five minutes from Stanford and its crazy to think that one message was to be the catalyst for the massive technological revolution especially in fancy Silicon Valley. ARPANET in full is the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network originated for military use to track incoming enemy aircraft and coordinate military responses. At first, just by glancing inside it looked like a scene and the equipment from the movie Enigma . I wish we would've been able to go inside and given closer access to this historic place; however, it just encouraged me to do my own research! The ARPANET was a defense department project centered on the first router, the Interface Message Processor. The IMP was built by BBN Technologies (now a subsidiary of Raytheon) and based on theoretical work done by UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock (he was the other ...