Happy Birthday, Internet?
Morgan
(I'm sure there are several contenders), on this day in 1969 the first
ARPANET computer link was established.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
"The first message ever to be sent over the ARPANET (sent over the first
host-to-host connection) occurred at 10:30 PM on October 29, 1969. It was
sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline and supervised by UCLA
Professor Leonard Kleinrock. The message was sent from the UCLA SDS Sigma
7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer. The message itself was
simply the word "login." The "l" and the "o" transmitted without problem
but then the system crashed. Hence, the first message on the ARPANET was
"lo". They were able to do the full login about an hour later."
Hmm... Maybe the first message was going to be "LOL," but after the crash
they changed their minds? ;-)
To the small steps that led to this wonderful tool we have today.
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Then again, maybe that's not the best way to toast something computer
related? ;-)
Morgan /|\
Information wants to be free
Barry Gold
>While it may be debatable whether this counts as the Internet's birthday
>(I'm sure there are several contenders), on this day in 1969 the first
>ARPANET computer link was established.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
>
>"The first message ever to be sent over the ARPANET (sent over the first
>host-to-host connection) occurred at 10:30 PM on October 29, 1969. It was
>sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline and supervised by UCLA
>Professor Leonard Kleinrock. The message was sent from the UCLA SDS Sigma
>7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer. The message itself was
>simply the word "login." The "l" and the "o" transmitted without problem
>but then the system crashed. Hence, the first message on the ARPANET was
>"lo". They were able to do the full login about an hour later."
That's certainly good enough for a toast. Other dates worth
celebrating:
December 1974: RFC 675 (Internet Protocol)
January 1, 1983: ARPANET switched from NCP (Network Control
Program) protocol to TCP/IP.
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David
<ljw...@silver-gateway.com> typed furiously:
I'll drink to that!
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Wes Struebing
I'll be happy to toast that!
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