Yesterday, the Internet celebrated its 40th anniversary. On October 29, 1969, two computers communicating the first remote, one installed at the University of Los Angeles, the other located inside the campus of Stanford. They then exchanged a first message over the network Arpanet, the forerunner of the Internet as it exists today. A network funded by the U.S. military, which was initially able to connect the centers of military communications in order to decentralize information. The army was thought to use this technology to not lose touch and keep the grip on communications in the event of interruption or destruction of important sites in time of war or as part of a nuclear attack.

The story was that the network has gradually expanded beyond the strictly military engineers and researchers quickly weaved a web link to various universities to share research and knowledge. However it will be 1989 and the early work of Tim Berners-Lee around the World Wide Web protocol and its links to the Internet infrastructure grows as we know it today. Arpanet Happy birthday, happy birthday internet.