The researchers at UCLA in California actually tried to send the command "Login" to another research institute. However, so far, the groundbreaking attempt on October 29, 1969, did not become.

But even with just "LO" the breakthrough was the fact. For the first time, two computers had talked to each other through what would later become the Internet.

The development since then has been explosive, states Patrik Fältström, who has worked in various forms with the internet since the 1980s.

"The digitalisation explosion is really two things that happened at the same time," says Fältström, today technology and security manager at Netnod.

- Secondly, the ability to convert information into ones and zeros and back. Partly what they found 50 years ago, namely moving the ones and zeros back and forth.

"Will be boring"

The early, staggering steps of the 1960s have become 50 years later the internet we know today. With websites about everything between heaven and earth, constant connection through our smart phones and vehicles that can do without a driver.

According to Patrik Fältström, it is really just the imagination that sets the limits for what the Internet's next 50 years will be like.

- I think the internet itself will be as boring and obvious as water and electricity. I hope so, at least, that we shouldn't even think about it, he says.

No limits

Basically, everything today that has an electric cord may as well have a fiber cord as well. The step to connect cars and other mobile things wirelessly is also not far. Instead, the big changes in the future will be made in how the Internet is applied, believes Patrik Fältström.

- Once you have all these things connected, it is just your imagination that says what applications and services you can run. Then you can really start to invent things.