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AP photo of Al Gore Len Kleinrock, whose research during the 60s was fundamental in establishing the tube network.

Over at Boing Boing, everybody's favorite Xeni reminds us:

Forty years ago today, in Leonard Kleinrock's UCLA lab, a group of computer scientists managed to pass bits of data from one computer to another over some some gray cable. In doing so, they created the first node of what we now call (long dramatic pause)... the Internet.

The Internet itself could not be reached for comment, but inside sources say the globe-sprawling data transfer network is spending the day relaxing with friends and family, who have prepared a coffin-shaped cake with black icing and started teasing it about being an "old fart."