Forty years of the internet: how the world changed for ever

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Friday, 23 October 2009 (on October 23, 2009)

In October 1969, a student typed 'LO' on a computer - and the internet was bornTowards the end of the summer of 1969 –�a few weeks after the moon landings, a few days after Woodstock, and a..

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