Event #4: Internet Heritage Site

For my fourth event, I visited the Leonard Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site, located on campus in Boelter Hall, room 3420.

Before taking this class, I was unaware that this site even existed on campus. I knew that the foundation for the internet was invented at UCLA, but I never stopped to wonder where that actually occurred. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it was in Boelter hall; when I am on campus, I usually tend to be in Boelter hall for a good amount of time.

I see the intersection of science and art in this exhibit, because this room was designed and decorated to look the way that it did when the internet was created in 1969. It appeared very vintage to me, compared to how most classrooms look nowadays; there was a tape recorder and typewriter, something that isn't really seen in classrooms anymore. On the chalkboard, I was able to see some writings that likely were a part of the invention of the internet in that room. It is crazy to think about how far the internet has come in the past 50 years, and to think that the foundation for it began right here, at UCLA.




View of the internet heritage site room. 
View of the internet heritage site room.


View of the internet heritage site room.

Me in front of the entrance to the Internet Heritage Site in Boelter Hall.




Sources
Kudler, Adrian Glick. “Here's the Room at UCLA Where the Internet Was Born (It Tweets).” Curbed LA, Curbed LA, 11 Apr. 2011, la.curbed.com/2011/4/11/10473182/heres-the-room-at-ucla-where-the-internet-was-born-it-tweets-1.
Kudler, Adrian Glick. “Touring the Recreated 1969 Birthplace of the Internet at UCLA.” Curbed LA, Curbed LA, 29 Oct. 2018, la.curbed.com/2011/10/31/10429196/internet-invented-ucla-first-message-museum.
Prado, Asari. Internet Heritage Site 1. 3 June 2019.
Prado, Asari. Internet Heritage Site 2. 3 June 2019.
Prado, Asari. Internet Heritage Site 3. 3 June 2019.
Prado, Asari. Me in Boelter. 3 June 2019.
Swann, Jennifer. “Here's How the Internet Was Invented at UCLA Los Angeles Magazine.” Los Angeles Magazine, 24 Aug. 2016, www.lamag.com/culturefiles/heres-internet-invented-ucla/.

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