The Internet turns 40 today! I learned a little I have never heard before from an Internet article on National Geographic.
What you might call the 40th anniversary of the Internet—can give thanks to the simple network message that started it all: “lo.”
On October 29, 1969, that message became the first ever to travel between two computers connected via the ARPANET, the computer network that would become the Internet.
The truncated transmission traveled about 400 miles (643 kilometers) between the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute. The electronic dispatch was supposed to be the word “login,” but only the first two letters were successfully sent before the system crashed.
Internet Turns 40 Today: First Message Crashed System – National Geographic online
There you have it.
Two firsts. The first Internet message, the first crash.
Two birds with one stone, can’t beat that!
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