Happy Birthday to the Internet, 41 years old today.
The first message transmitted over the ARPANET (the world's first operational packet switching network) was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline, at 10:30 p.m, on October 29, 1969. Supervised by Prof. Leonard Kleinrock, Kline transmitted from the university's SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the Stanford Research Institute's SDS 940 Host computer. The message text was the word "login"; the "l" and the "o" letters were transmitted, but the system then crashed. Hence, the literal first message over the ARPANET was "lo". About an hour later, having recovered from the crash, the SDS Sigma 7 computer effected a full "login".
From "lo" to Fish on Fridays. We've come a long way in 41 years!
8 comments:
Didn't Al Gore invent the internet? :-) I like your header - "cheat the nursing home..." I agree. Why go out with a whimper?
Yes indeed. Al Gore did invent the Internet. And the climate. And Goretex. Clever guy.
Actually one of the real inventors of the Internet was Vinton Cerf, who designed TCP/IP. I had the pleasure of having dinner with him a few years ago. Quite a character. He signed the label on a bottle of wine for me.
After keeping it a few months I drank the wine and threw the bottle away.
Duh!
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lol !
Yes, we sure have come a long way in 41 years. Sorry for the multiple posts. My browser kept crashing in the middle of trying to post this comment.
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levis!
Sorry for the multiple posts. My trowsers kept crashing in the middle of trying to post this comment.
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