LOGIN

Happy Internet Day!
Today, 2019-10-29, is the 50th anniversary of the first message being sent over the Internet. While working on ARPANET, a network funded by the US Defense Department, Charley Kline attempted to send the word "LOGIN" from UCLA to Bill Duvall at Stanford. The message almost worked, sending the first two letters before connection between the terminals crashed, sending only "LO", Kline was able to send the complete "LOGIN" message about an hour later.

The following quote was found from this article

"We set up a telephone connection between us and the guys at SRI...," Kleinrock ... said in an interview: "We typed the L and we asked on the phone, "Do you see the L?" "Yes, we see the L," came the response. "We typed the O, and we asked, "Do you see the O." "Yes, we see the O." "Then we typed the G, and the system crashed"... Yet a revolution had begun"...

Written by Clive "James" Python, 2019-10-29.

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