<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">Just as 2019 marked 50 years since the first message crossed the APRPANET, it also marked 25 years since the realization that the Internet and its associated technologies were now so vital that they needed to be ubiquitous. It was Larry Irving, then leading the NTIA, who coined the term 'Digital Divide', and Laura Breeden who led the staff effort to ameliorate it. Our stream today kicks off with Lee Rainie providing facts and figures, and includes Vint Cerf, who needs no introduction, but marked the occasion by sporting a <a href="https://twitter.com/JolyMacfie/status/1131925748267118592">1994 Internet Society pin.</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default"></div><br><u></u>
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ISOC Live posted: "Today, Tuesday December 31 2019, at 7pm EST (00:00 UTC) in the sixth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, we feature three streams that celebrated the 50th anniversary of first message sent across the" </span>
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