40th Anniversary of the Net - October 29, 1969

On the evening of October 29, 1969 the first data travelled between two nodes of the ARPANET, a key ancestor of the Internet. Even more important, this was one of the first big trials of a then-radical idea: Networking computers to each other. The men who symbolically turned the key on the connected world we know today were two young programmers, Charley Kline at UCLA and Bill Duvall at SRI in Northern California, using special equipment made by BBN in Cambridge, Massachussetts.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Computer
• History
• Museum
• Stanford
• BBN
• Networking
• ARPANET
• INTERNET

[nephildevil]

I typed the 'L' and then he said he got the "L", i said ok and then i typed the "O" and he said he received "O", and then i typed the "G"

and then he said, "oh wait, my system has crashed"

hahaha damn

[CFHQSJ23290301]

Ok let's go

"L" "O" "G" "I" "N"

Do you copy?

[AceNinja2112]

They forgot to mention the work that Al Gore did in helping them connect the two computers. Al Gore had told them that the first message should be "L-O-C-K B-O-X".....they got to "L" and "O" but then when they typed "G", Al Gore sent a signal to crash the system. Al was mad that they didn't use his idea for the first message to be transmitted by the ARPANET.

[tigen9]

1 person doesnt like their network that they used to watch this video :/

[tripjet999]

.MODEL large .186 UP EQU 1 DOWN EQU 0 CONT_BASE EQU 0FF00H EOI_REGISTER EQU CONT_BASE + 022H TIMER_CONTROL_REGISTER EQU CONT_BASE + 032H TIMER_CTL EQU CONT_BASE + 00032H TIMER0_CNT EQU CONT_BASE + 00050H TIMER0_MAXA EQU CONT_BASE + 00050H TIMER0_MAXB EQU CONT_BASE + 00054H TIMER0_CTL EQU CONT_BASE + 00056H TIMER1_CNT EQU CONT_BASE + 00058H TIMER1_MAXA EQU CONT_BASE + 0005AH TIMER1_MAXB EQU CONT_BASE + 0005CH TIMER1_CTL EQU CONT_BASE + 0005EH @curseg ENDS end

[websavvydood]

These guys really WERE great, but just think ... if it wasn't for us Brits developing Packet Switched Protocol courtesy of the NPL National Physics Laboratory - Teddington) Arpanet wouldn't have happened NOR the Web (which we also invented). Hmm!

[robertrivasphotos]

the famous "log in" crash story... in Spain, we call it the "Red" ('red' news network in Spanish) .. thats the reaction we get on our faces when we failed a log in attempt! ;-)

[albertagent]

hey 29 october my birthday :)

[LittleMissAngel29]

Ah! The 40th anniversary of the internet was on my 13th birthday!? That is officially cool.

[Tokyoromi]

@CFHQSJ2329030 "W" "H" "A" "T"

[ehhhhhhhhhh]

We landed a man on the moon before we were able to send data between two computers. Wow.

1969 was an incredible year for humanity.

[ITSbigwillystyle]

Wow we've come a long way from back then, the iPod I am watching this on probably has a higher capability of processing than one of those massive machines!