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Science history: First computer-to-computer message lays the foundation for the internet, but it crashes halfway through — Oct. 29, 1969

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...
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This Date with 8: October 29, 1969 — ARPANET Starts with a Typo

The first message on the internet was meant to be "login". However, the system crashed after the first two letters were sent.

This Day in History: The Internet is born

A first-of-its-kind electronic message is sent from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute. The first message was to be ...