Internet's first router

[Jazzy]

In Honor Of The Internet Turning 45 Today, Here Is Its First Router

Internet pioneer and computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock displays the Internet's first router, or "switch" — known as an Interface Message Processor — and describes the process of connecting it with UCLA's host computer, leading to the first-ever Internet message sent on October 29, 1969.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU9oMOcRsuE

We've come a long way, eh?

 

[DrLeftover]

Oh, Hell, Yes.

1946

Originally announced on February 14, 1946, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), was the first general-purpose electronic computer. Hailed by The New York Times as "an amazing machine which applies electronic speeds for the first time to mathematical tasks hitherto too difficult and cumbersome for solution," the ENIAC was a revolutionary piece of machinery in its day. It was constructed and operated here at The Moore School of Electrical Engineering, now part of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/about-seas/eniac/

I would say that each and every Off Topix user has many times more processing power at their fingertips than the unit shown above that took up an entire large building.

 

[Sinion Kabe]

Very interesting and just goes to show how far we have come in terms of computer technology

 

[Evil Eye]

Quite so.

I would say that each and every Off Topix user has many times more processing power at their fingertips than the unit shown above that took up an entire large building.

Good thing they became smaller. Wouldn't want to have to rent an entire apartment block just for a decentish computer.