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What was the first ARPANET message?
What was the first ARPANET message?
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The first message sent over ARPANET was the word “Lo”, sent by UCLA computer programming student Charley Kline to Stanford Research Institute on October 29, 1969. The intended message was “Login”, but the system crashed after the first two letters were sent.
The First Message Over the ARPANET computer in Menlo Park, California was simply “Lo” instead of the intended word, “login”. The message text was the word login; the l and the o letters were transmitted, but the system then crashed. ARPANET was the network that became the basis for the Internet.
The First Message Over the ARPANET computer in Menlo Park, California was simply “Lo” instead of the intended word, “login”. The message text was the word login; the l and the o letters were transmitted, but the system then crashed. ARPANET was the network that became the basis for the Internet.