As these Internet 50 year celebrations got underway, one pedantic party pooper pointed out that the original message sent on October 29 1969 was, in fact, between two computers, not two networks. That would come a little later. Nevertheless it was a great leap forward and, in these sessions, we hear from some of the people who made it possible. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Tuesday December 31 2019, at 7pm EST (00:00 UTC) in the sixth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, we feature three streams that celebrated the 50th anniversary of first message sent across the" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/arpanet>Today, *Tuesday December 31 2019*, at *7pm EST* (00:00 UTC) in the sixth installment of the *Internet Society Livestreaming*‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/tag/12-streams/>*‘ annual highlights, we feature three streams that celebrated the 50th anniversary of first message sent across the ARPANET, precursor to the Internet, featuring engineers, and *Internet Hall of Fame <https://www.internethalloffame.org/>* inductees, *Steve Crocker*, *Vint Cerf*, *Bob Kahn*, *Bill Duvall*, *Len Kleinrock* and *Charles Kline* in various combinations. The first stream is the 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Washington DC '*Celebrating 50 Years Since “LO”*' in February 2019. The second is a session '*Before the Beginning*' from the UCLA 50th Anniversary of the Internet Celebration event in Los Angeles in October 2019. The third is a LACNIC webinar '*50 Years Later, Looking Back at the Internet’s Birth*' from November 2019. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/arpanet <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/arpanet>* *ORIGINAL STREAMS* *https://livestream.com/internetsociety/arpanet50 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/arpanet50>* *https://livestream.com/internetsociety/internet50 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/internet50>* *http://livestream.com/internetsociety/internet50lacnic <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/internet50lacnic>* *TWITTER: #12STREAMS <http://bit.ly/2t8HX2J> #ARPANET #Internet50* *@vgcerf @kleinrock @bobkahn_brand @LACNIC @UCLA* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11641/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -