Congratulations Arpanet!

Quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET:

The first message ever 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.

Thanks to that stuff, happened exactly 40 years ago, we are using the internet every day. The internet has become an indispensable medium where our whole economy depends on.

I guess that guys in the late sixties did not realize that, although it was a big event because it was the first communication test for the ARPANET.

More about the event is available here at the website of UCLA, here and here, and visit Leonard Kleinrock’s website here.