29 OCT--This Day in US Military History

1SG Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 16:46:47 -0400

1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

The first message on the ARPANET was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline, at 10:30 pm, from Boelter Hall 3420. Kline transmitted from the university’s SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the Stanford Research Institute’s SDS 940 Host computer. The message text was the word login; the l and the o letters were transmitted, but the system then crashed. Hence, the literal first message over the ARPANET was "lo".
About an hour later, having recovered from the crash, the SDS Sigma 7 computer effected a full login.
The first permanent ARPANET link was established on 21 November 1969, between the IMP (router) at UCLA and the IMP at the Stanford Research Institute.
By 5 December 1969, the entire four-node network, adding University of California, Santa Barbara and The University of Utah, was established.

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Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 29 at 2014 5:26 PM

CW5 Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:26:50 -0400

One question about that day in 1969, 1SG Private RallyPoint Member. Was Vice President Al Gore there? He did invent the Internet, after all. :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFJ8cHAlco

Inventing the Internet

I included this video, not to embarrass our former Vice President, but to address an issue that won't seem to go away. Yes he said it. Yes he apparently miss...

Response by SFC Michael F. Lombardi made Oct 29 at 2014 7:35 PM

SFC Michael F. Lombardi — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:35:42 -0400

How is this possible?!? Al Gore invented the internet...he even said so! lol