On the evening of 29 October 1969, a student programmer at the University of California, Los Angeles, Charley Kline, tried to log in to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute 560 km away, over the ARPANET, the experimental network funded by the US Defense Department's research agency. He typed 'L' and 'O' before the system crashed; he had meant to send 'LOGIN'. An hour later the full message was sent. By the end of the year four sites were linked. The network adopted TCP/IP on 1 January 1983 and grew into the Internet. Ray Tomlinson sent the first email on it in 1971.
Before and after
- 14 October 1969Swat District
- 16 October 1969Establishment of Doñana National Park
- 22 October 1969Discovery of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 29 October 1969The first message is sent over ARPANET
- 10 November 1969Premiere of Sesame Street
- 14 November 1969Launch of Apollo 12
- 1 December 1969Publication of Doraemon
- 11 December 1969Birth of Viswanathan Anand
More in Science & technology
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- 1950Discovery of californium
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 29 August 1982Discovery of meitnerium
The era
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