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This is where the Internet was born

Last updated on: October 28, 2011 09:54 IST

Image: 3420 Boelter Hall.
Photographs: Fred Prouser/Reuters.

This is the original location of the first ARPANET node at UCLA in Los Angeles.

The original lab, which for years had been used as a classroom, has been recreated as it was in 1969, and will soon reopen with a reunion of the original scientists involved in the first message. 

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This is where the Internet was born

Image: UCLA's Interface Message Processor.
Photographs: Fred Prouser/Reuters.

UCLA's Interface Message Processor (IMP) (L) is pictured in a UCLA storage closet where it had been kept for over 20 years.

UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock and his team used the IMP, the packet-switching node used to interconnect participant networks to the ARPANET, to send the first message, the letters LO to Stanford Research Institute on October 29, 1969. 

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This is where the Internet was born

Image: Leonard Kleinrock.
Photographs: Fred Prouser/Reuters.

Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UCLA Leonard Kleinrock in the birthplace of the Internet, at 3420 Boelter Hall in UCLA.

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This is where the Internet was born

Image: A teletype similar to the one used to communicate with the Sigma 7 computer.
Photographs: Fred Prouser/Reuters.

A teletype similar to the one used to communicate with the Sigma 7 computer, which was connected to UCLA's Interface Message Processor (IMP), in the birthplace of the Internet, at 3420 Boelter Hall, the original location of the first ARPANET node. 

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This is where the Internet was born

Image: A blackboard with the letters LOG and LO.
Photographs: Fred Prouser/Reuters.

A blackboard with the letters LOG and LO, is pictured in 3420 Boelter Hall at UCLA.
 
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This is where the Internet was born

Image: Original log book.
Photographs: Fred Prouser/Reuters.

The original log book detailing UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock and his team using the Interface Message Processor (IMP), at 3420 Boelter Hall in UCLA.

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This is where the Internet was born

Image: UCLA's Interface Message Processor.
Photographs: Fred Prouser/Reuters.

A detailed view of UCLA's Interface Message Processor (IMP) is seen in a storage closet, where it had been stored for over 20 years, at 3420 Boelter Hall in UCLA. 

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This is where the Internet was born

Image: UCLA's Interface Message Processor.
Photographs: Fred Prouser/Reuters.

A detailed view of UCLA's Interface Message Processor (IMP) is pictured in a storage closet, where it had been stored for over 20 years, at 3420 Boelter Hall in UCLA.

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This is where the Internet was born

Image: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Photographs: Fred Prouser/Reuters.

A plaque placed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers at the birthplace of the Internet, the original location of the first ARPANET node at 3420 Boelter Hall in UCLA. 

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This is where the Internet was born

Image: UCLA's Interface Message Processor.
Photographs: Fred Prouser/Reuters.

UCLA's Interface Message Processor (IMP) in 3420 Boelter Hall.

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This is where the Internet was born

Image: Interface Message Processor.
Photographs: Fred Prouser/Reuters.

A label indicating that UCLA's Interface Message Processor (IMP) was the first unit produced.

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This is where the Internet was born

Image: Leonard Kleinrock.
Photographs: Fred Prouser/Reuters.

Professor Leonard Kleinrock, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UCLA next to UCLA's Interface Message Processor (IMP) in the birthplace of the Internet, at the 3420 Boelter Hall at UCLA.