History · by Emir Kaya · 2026-10-29
On this day in 1969, the first message was sent over ARPANET. It crashed after two letters
October 29, 1969: UCLA tried to send "LOGIN" to Stanford. The system crashed after "LO". So technically the first message on the proto-internet was "lo", as in "lo and behold". What a start.
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