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That’s one small step for
man. One giant leap for mankind. Yes, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of
Arpanet, a network that linked four computer nodes in 1969, the prototype of
today’s Internet, a giant leap for humankind. (That moon landing was pretty significant,
too.)     

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