D Tuesday, October 27, 2009 METRO choc chicks check choc mix Prof Kleinrock with the first Interface Message Processor Picture: AFP Worlds first e-mailer: Twitter is frivolous THE man credited with sending the worlds first ever e-mail has told Metro he is not a fan of Twit- ter, calling many of the messages sent via the site frivolous. Professor Leonard Kleinrock, who was speaking as he and oth- ers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) prepared to celebrate the internets 40th birth- day on Thursday, predicted the worldwide spread of the internet but never anticipated its huge popularity for socialising. Three months before the first message was sent, in July 1969, Prof Kleinrock said the internet would eventually reach virtually all homes and businesses. As of now, computer networks are still in their infancy, he wrote. But as they grow up and become more sophisticated we will prob- ably see the spread of computer utilities which, like present elec- tric and telephone utilities, will service individual homes and of- fices across the country. However, the 75-year-old com- puter scientist thought it would be used more as a serious tool by businesses and academics and far less socially through sites such as Facebook and Twitter. On October 29, 1969, Prof Kleinrock led a team that got a computer at UCLA to talk to one at a research institute. He was sure computers were destined to speak to each other and the resulting network should be as simple to use as telephones. One regret he says he has from the early days of the internet was failing to build in sufficient secu- rity controls to prevent it being used for spam and pornography which he termed the dark side. In 1972 there were just a few hundred people online in the world, using around 20 computers all of them in the US and the internet was based on trust. We encouraged people to be creative. We allowed every user anonymous access to hundreds of individuals. It was perfect territo- ry for the dark side, he said. It was easier to predict how tech- nology would develop in the fu- ture than what applications would be invented, the professor said. Nanotechnology will transform the way we use the internet, he predicted; the web will become integrated into walls, cars, per- haps even our bodies, with access through holograms, but the tech- nology will become invisible like electricity is invisible, he added. By fred attewIll internet to expand to non-Latin script THE internet is to undergo one of its biggest changes with the expected approval of domain names that can be written in non-Latin script. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann will be discussing the addresses issue at a meeting this week in Seoul. Icann president Rod Beckstrom said the change aimed at more than half of the webs 1.6billion users worldwide, who use non-Latin based languages would come into force next year. Models lesley taylor and leah duffy wear chocolate-inspired rolo Hats, created by textile artist eleanor roche, at the launch of the temple Bar Chocolate festival, which runs from October 30 to November 1. as part of the festival, people will have the chance to eat, smell, taste and make chocolate truffles, chocolate face masks, chocolate cupcakes and even see a chocolate- inspired art exhibition Picture: Photocall New fight over Lee legacy MARTIAL arts icon Bruce Lee is once again in the middle of a scrap as his daughter goes on a drive to bring him back into the public consciousness. Shannon Lees website, brucelee.com, and a programme of licensing name and likeness rights for film, TV and advertisements, including Pepsi and Nokia, looks set to pit her against the US-Chinese actors brother. Projects licensed include a Chinese-language biopic, an animation project involving Belfast firm Flickerpix and a CG action film. But, Robert Lee, the brother of the fighter who died of swelling on the brain in 1973, is also working on a three-part biopic, and Ms Lees licensing company is clamping down on copyright. Its chief, Kris Storti said: This, unfortunately, includes the recently announced biopic by JA Media and Robert Lee.dragon on: legal tussle EDWARD CULLEN, the character of Twilight star Robert Pattinson, has been hailed by film buffs as their favourite movie vampire. Pattinson, 23, drew first blood with 38 per cent of votes in the survey of 3,000 cinema-goers, ahead of sequel New Moon out next month. Christopher Lees chilling portrayal of Dracula came second, with 15 per cent going to the 1958 Hammer Horror film star. One in ten film fans voted for Wesley Snipes as Blade, putting him third, followed by Tom Cruises Lestat in Interview With The Vampire, on eight per cent. The online poll by Pearl and Dean put Max Schrecks Graf Orlok in the silent 1922 Nosferatu in ninth place and Kiefer Sutherlands role in 1987s The Lost Boys in seventh. Twilight star voted favourite vampire Best undead: Pattinson index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html