Communication · 1969

ARPANET

UCLA sends 'LO' to Stanford before crashing: the first message of the internet's ancestor.

On 29 October 1969 the first ARPANET link connected UCLA and SRI, using packet-switching Interface Message Processors built by BBN. Funded by the US Defense Department's ARPA, it grew to dozens of sites and became the testbed for email, TCP/IP and internet culture.

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