West side of the room For one of the events, I decided to go to the Leonard Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site in Boelter Hall. For the past four years that I have been a student at UCLA, I did not know that there was a room honoring the discovery of the internet. As a student here, it is a well-known fact that UCLA was the site where the internet was first tested, in which a message was sent to another computer program in Standford. This idea and method of sharing information between two computers revolutionized the digital world and was the catalyst for further internet development. East side of the room The room opened in 2011 and was restored with the help of the original team. When I visited, a student in the hallway told me that you could not go inside, but you can look through the glass door. I thought it was pretty cool getting a glimpse of such a historical scene. Everything looked pristine and untouched; it is hard to believe that it was not the original scene. T...
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