Extra Credit Event: Leonard Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site

This week, I finally had the opportunity to visit the Leonard Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site. I would recommend everyone to go check it out, since it's just in Boelter Hall at UCLA, and it's the birth place of one of the most important inventions to our modern world today.
Leonard Kleinrock was a PhD student from MIT who served as a Computer Science professor at UCLA. Over his life, he published more than 250 papers and wrote 6 books on topics such as packet switching networks, packet radio networks, local area networks, broadband networks, nomadic computing, peer-to-peer networks, and intelligent software agents. His theory of packet networks, the technology that laid the foundation for the Internet, influences us to this day.


On top of the art behind the beauty of the mechanisms that made the Internet possible, the Internet also gave new meanings to art in general. For instance, through the Internet, people are able to share their artwork to a larger audience than ever before. Photography and digital art became increasingly popular, as more and more social media platforms allow people to share their artwork and receive feedback on them. This had paved the way for the increased awareness and access to various forms of art without having to go to a museum or paying for exhibitions. In this way, the Internet had fueled artists and art lovers alike to engage more in the field.

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