In October 1969, scientists at UCLA attempted to exchange data between two computers.
PARIS: On the 30th anniversary of the birth of the World Wide Web, here is a look back at the development of the Internet, now used by billions of people. In October 1969, scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) attempt to exchange data between two computers. Their first objective is to type out three letters -«LOG» — send them in binary form to the second computer, which should then add the next two letters, to form «LOGIN». On their second attempt they succeed and the ARPANET project is born, financed by the US Defense Department. The system, considered to be the father of the internet, grows from a core of four computers used by the university and military networks, to 13 computers in 1970 and 213 in 1981. In 1971, American Ray Tomlinson sends the first email on ARPANET. He is credited with separating the name of the user and the network he is using with the @ sign. To exchange information between two computers in the same network a «protocol» is needed: a series of stages controlled by the rules of communication.
