SAN FRANCISCO: On Oct 29, 1969, professor Leonard Kleinrock and a team at the University of California at Los Angeles got a computer to "talk" to a machine in what is now known as Silicon Valley.
The event gave birth to a network that later became known as the Internet – hailed at first as a boon to equality and enlightenment, but with a dark side that has emerged as well.
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