Internet Turns 40

" Years ago -- wasn't sure the Internet would generate fourteen cents much less fourteen billion. It was letter -- team at UCLA for decades ago this very day. That laid the groundwork for the modern Internet changing lives and businesses forever. Lennar joins me now along with Jim Parker he is the former CEO of Southwest Airlines he also happens to be -- her. Do the right thing how dedicated employees create loyal customers and large profits good morning gentlemen good to you guys in money. I'm -- Leonard let me start with you forty years ago. Today. You try to achieve something what did you think you were cheating at the time but at the time."

" Always wanted to do was to create a network which would allow computers to communicate. And in fact do we did that very well. We had anticipation as to what it would become. A network that was always accessible always on always available anybody could get on at any time and it would be invisible. What I never anticipated was up my mind 99 year old mother would be on the Internet -- and she wasn't what she passed away two years ago."

" I'm sorry about that set but when you sat -- said I want to have two computers communicate. What do you think he would achieve in the process and he walked because and messaging how -- you crazy did that conversation between these two standalone entity."

" Well in order for computers to talk to each other they need communications network in fact many computers would like to exchange information and share their resources. The only network available that kind of telephone network and that was woefully in adequate to about this to happen. It just tied up with communications link for the entire duration of the conversation. When you send data you quiet most of the time if you keying into eternity between keystrokes. Until we have to develop a more efficient way to do that so from my Ph.D. dissertation MIT. I developed this technology called packet switching. Which allows small blocks of data to go pop pop pop to a network. Only using the link when they needed. And when I'm not -- you continue a packet and many packets can share a link to the idea was don't dedicated communications path. What could be shared by everyone the notion of sharing was the key idea here."

" GM I understand that colleague of yours walked into your office and said. There's this article in magazine and it's about the Internet. And I want you to read this. What you think we saw that."

" Well let's first of all Leonard thank you for the Internet and to answer your question elections. About fifteen years ago our associate General Counsel of Southwest Airlines then react from and walked into my office and gave me this article from business week loans he said you gotta read this thing about the Internet and I read it and went back into her office and said I read it but I still don't understand. Who owns it where is that what does it cost to participate in it than. When she said it's everywhere nobody owns that that doesn't cost any thing to. Access the Internet I thought she'd gone around the band. To it really it really set me off asking anybody act could find who I know something about the Internet to tell me what is this thing called the Internet and ultimately of course the Southwest Airlines became the first major airline to develop its own web page which allowed consumers to directly access -- inventory and view. Do you the flights in the prices that we have Leonard wouldn't you think."

" To sort of go I definitely I think to a call it means stream and we surprised that it became a social networking and today."

" This social networking site was a surprise as were many other supplies for him to act."

" But he began to reach popular recognition. In the late eighties early nineties. We had a few Lee forensic."

" Chris was that the National Science Foundation. Allowed all scientists that doing so was a much larger constituency. And these people living in their laboratories inside corporations."

" The staff the management the other workers noticed this thing called email until it leaked out of the land into the dot com yes."

" To the dot com has began to appear. Al Gore the most knowledgeable person in Washington about computers and Internet. Help promote what's called the high performance computing and communications act than last act that the first President Bush. Basically enacted into law. And allowed academia industry and and government to work together to create a high speed backbone network Gigabit network that's too. Fed the web happens via. A wonderfully simple graphical user interface uses. So we had people who wanted to get on. A network which could handle them and interface -- throughout the mine. -- because millions of people using the network and sadly the social world the entire world noticed what happened that."

" What happens next. You're gonna take you. Your Blackberry. Your laptop you netbook. And even lead this facility and you gonna travel around the world as many people do and gain access to. Capability. You -- smart spaces when you walk into a room it will -- he walked in. We're going to take shots spaced out from behind a screen of you machines. Into your physical space."

" It'll be in your desk you won't you -- watching eye glasses in your body. And it will -- Leo -- two million profiles preferences and privileges. When you look up to machine of have you customized software. And wherever you go this will be available."

" And in addition they'll be intelligent agents in the network. Providing information that you want the things unique you don't know -- anticipate what you want and to wherever you go UB Internet connected --"

" Jim I'm mr. -- in mesmerized and I'm a little scared kill."

" Well when I frank well -- our lives have been revolutionized in the last fifteen years by the Internet. I can hardly even comprehend what might happen in the next fifteen years mesmerized too but. You know it's. Something that we we all -- album opportunity there. See unfold I think for as long as long as we're around we're going to have new developments in this area."

" Well -- and Leonard I think you guys so much -- I'm really fascinated -- pick your brain during the commercial break and Jim as always it's wonderful seeing you. Quite new invention and thank you very much my pleasure you meet our lives much easier -- and more complicated the political."