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Event #3: Leonard Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site

Today 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 person in the room when Kline typed “lo”). It cost about $100,000.The ARPANET’s big breakthrough was that it could network all different kinds of hardware and software. Until then, only uniform systems had been networked together. Basically, what makes this location so unique was it allowed one located system to transmit information to various users among different platforms. The UCLA grad student who was the one to actually send the message could only type "lo" of "login" because the site had crashed before the whole world could be sent. Boy have we come a long way since!!! UCLA's old professor Kleinrock was iconic and momentous in the fundamental work of creating this first transmitted message through ARPANET. With all this in mind, it really proves that it really takes a village to accomplish something. A village of logical minded, creative minded, artists, engineers, mathematicians, scientists, etc to conquer the impossible. 
Me with the cool PLAQUE 



 the Interface Message Processor.

UCLA grad student Charley Kline


References: 

Featherly, Kevin. “ARPANET.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 28 Nov. 2016, www.britannica.com/topic/ARPANET.

Kudler, Adrian Glick. “Touring the Recreated 1969 Birthplace of the Internet at UCLA.” Curbed LA, Curbed LA, 29 Oct. 2018, la.curbed.com/2011/10/31/10429196/internet-invented-ucla-first-message-museum.

“Milestones:Birthplace of the Internet, 1969.” Milestones:Birthplace of the Internet, 1969 - Engineering and Technology History Wiki, ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969.

“Packet Switching.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 29 May 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_switching.

Touring the Recreated 1969 Birthplace of the Internet at UCLA | David Bohnett Foundation, www.bohnettfoundation.org/touring-the-recreated-1969-birthplace-of-the-internet-at-ucla-2/.

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