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On this day in 1969, fixty-six years ago. the first message was sent over the ARPANET, the precursor the internet. It was the letters L and O, an attempt to type LOGIN when the system crashed. It was the moment the world changed. https://www.darpa.mil/news/features/arpanet #arpanet

Happy Beginning of the Internet Age Day! "The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the [Packet Radio Van] and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti's (since 1956, officially the "Alpine Inn"), a well-known Portola Valley, California biker bar, and wires were run to one of the picnic tables." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio_Van #internet #InternetHistory #InternetAge #PacketRadioVan #arpanet #history #OnThisDay #OTD