40 years on the moon! Where were you on July 20, 1969?




I remember it clearly, I was delivering a paper route and had come to my last house on a hill which was right next to my grade school. They invited me inside to watch the historic moon walk and I was glad mostly for the rest and refreshments more than the significance of the moon landing.

here is a UTube link:
Apollo 11 40th Anniversary

and some computer history to put how they did it in perspective

1969 Control Data Corporation led by Seymour Cray, release the CDC 7600, considered by most to be the first supercomputer.
1969 AT&T Bell Laboratories develop Unix.
1969 Steve Crocker releases RFC #1 on April 7, 1979 introducing the Host-to-Host and talking about the IMP software.
1969 Linus Torvalds is born.
1969 Gary Starkweather, while working with Xerox invents the laser printer.
1969 UCLA puts out a press release introducing the public to the Internet on July 3, 1969.
1969 On August 29, 1969 the first network switch and the first piece of network equipment (called “IMP”, which is short for Interface Message Processor) is sent to UCLA.
1969 On September 2, 1969 the first data moves from UCLA host to the IMP switch.
1969 CompuServe, the first commercial online service, is established.
1969 AMD is founded.

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