Forty years ago, said Leonard Kleinrock never imagined "explosion" Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube.

At that time, he and his team had "given birth" what is later called the Internet.

"We were very surprised with the variety of emerging applications," Kleinrock said.

He and his colleagues from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) is preparing anniversary of the 40 Internet, Thursday (29/10).

"The Internet has become a teenager now. It has learned something, but still must continue to learn, "he said in San Francisco, Saturday (24/10).

On October 29, 1969, Kleinrock led a team which can make a computer "talk" with others in the research section.

Kleinrock driven by the belief that computers are designed to be able to talk each other to produce a simple network, such as

telephone usage.

Key in the exchange of data between one computer and another computer is to solve the digital code and make it as a package separately.

He has outlined his vision in his master’s dissertation, and even publish in a book.

"However, no one cares, especially ATT," Kleinrock said.

ATT is the largest company in the U.S. telephone service providers, both local and long distance.

"I have been doing presentations, but they say that the idea will not be realized. In fact, if it can happen, they don’t want to do anything, "he said.

But, ATT provides a path that connects the computer to the ARPANET. This is a project supported by the U.S. military.

initially, experiments failed to connect ARPANET.

Kleinrock team tried to send data between computers on the ARPANET and successful.

A total of two computers at two other universities are also connected at the end of 1969.

resource: kompas.com