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Online kidney auction stopped SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The bidding for a human kidney offered on the Internet auction site eBay hit $5.7 million before the company put a stop to it Thursday. Spokesman Kevin Pursglove said eBay stopped the auction because the seller broke eBay's rules outlawing the sale of body parts. Selling your own organs is also illegal under federal law, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison or a $50,000 fine. "Any time you have an open trading environment with almost 6 million registered users, you're likely to see somebody who tries to bend the rules, or to pull a prank on their fellow users," Pursglove said. The seller, identified as "hchero" from Sunrise, Fla., started the bidding at $25,000 Aug. 26. See full story Return To Top \| Technology Internet's 30th birthday celebrated LOS ANGELES (AP) - The computer scientists who pioneered the Internet and entrepreneurs who are profiting from it celebrated the 30th anniversary Thursday of the network's first primitive connection. Three decades ago, on Sept. 2, 1969, a small crowd gathered inside professor Len Kleinrock's lab at the University of California, Los Angeles to watch as meaningless bits of information silently flowed along a 15-foot cable between two bulky computers. It was a test of the technology that remains the foundation of the Internet. "In those early days, Len Kleinrock and his colleagues couldn't possibly have foreseen they were on the ground floor of one of the most life-altering innovations of this century," said UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale.