At age 40, Internet less loosey-goosey as barriers intrude
Spam, hacking, firewalls and attempts to thwart rivals seen as threat to growth
Posted: August 31, 2009 at 2:26 a.m.
Goofy videos weren't on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use applications that have drawn more than a billion people online.
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Business, Pages 10, 11 on 08/31/2009
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