Celebrating 40 years of the net

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

The first minutes of Arpanet were not successful...

"At 2100, on 29 October 1969, engineers 400 miles apart at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and 
Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
prepared to send data between the first nodes of what was then known as Arpanet.

It got the name because it was commissioned by the US Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpa).

The fledgling network was to be tested by Charley Kline attempting to remotely log in to a Scientific Data Systems 
computer that resided at SRI.

Kline typed an "L" and then asked his colleague Bill Duvall at SRI via a telephone headset if the letter had arrived.

It had.

Kline typed an "O". Duvall said that arrived too.

Kline typed a "G". Duvall could only report that the system had crashed."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8331253.stm

Happy Birthday!

Juha-Matti
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