Oct. 29 (UPI) --Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of a milestone event that helped shape the modern Internet -- the first-ever computer linkup and the first electronic message sent over the U.S.

On October 29, 1969, a team of scientists at UCLA sent the first message over ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet. The message was supposed to be “LOGIN,” but the system crashed after the ...

On October 29, 1969, the first successful message was sent over ARPANET. UCLA student Charley Kline transmitted from an SDS Sigma 7 computer to an SDS 940 machine at the Stanford Research Institute.

The first real internet connection happened 50 years ago—but those that sent the first messages on what would become the modern internet aren’t so pleased with their creation today. Fifty years ago ...

50 years after the first ARPANET message, pop culture still views connectivity as disconnected from the political worldview that produced it. The first message transmitted over ARPANET, the pioneering ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Today is October 29. On this day in 1969, around 10:30 p.m., the first message was sent over ARPANET, the precursor to the internet. UCLA Professor of Computer Science ...

The notebook that documented the first “internet” connection made on the ARPANET on October 29, 1969 at UCLA Image: (UCLA Special Collections) Fifty years ago today, on October 29, 1969, the internet ...

When the first exchange over ARPANET took place on Oct. 29, 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Mississippi to desegregate its public schools and Sen. Ted Kennedy was in Congress debating the Vietnam ...

The Intel 4004 microprocessor is introduced. (During the 1970s microprocessors allow engineers to build smaller and more powerful computers.) ARPANET is connected to 23 university and government ...

(WHTM) — In the beginning, was the ARPANET. In a 1999 article in the New York Times, Taylor described some of the thinking, and frustration, that led to the ARPANET project. In 1966, he had to have ...

Long before the World Wide Web or the commercial Internet as we know it today, a young engineer called Gerrit Dirk “Gert” van der Veer helped install the very first ARPANET link in South Africa. The ...

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