UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock displays Internet's first router

Internet pioneer and UCLA computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock displays the Internet's first router, or "switch" -- known as an Interface Message Processor -- and describes the process of connecting it with UCLA's host computer, leading to the first-ever Internet message sent on October 29, 1969.

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[neocon70]

DAMNIT Leonard, we need moar internets!

[bio2020]

Send this to the Smithsonian, please.

[Samaan AM]

God Bless America.

[Banisag]

No, you idiot! The Internet was pioneered by this professor. World Wide Web was created in the U.K.

[Ultimate Ultimate]

who were the 5 main guys?

[26296001]

Thanks for the internet :D

[Alex Paulsen]

An ADSL cable. Make sure your router has an ADSL port, and that if you wish to share the socket with a telephone, to get an ADSL filter too.

[ehmfrancisco]

we have surely gone a long way.

[Alec Blanchard]

Looks like a high tech fridge...

[heathergee28]

i think that's just a basic cord with the two clicky thingies on it, if you ask for a socket-to-socket connection cable at the store they should know what you mean.

[1998jorrellian]

they cant throw that first router made becos that is like a antique and if they do that than no one is going to know what the first internet router was like