How cool is this? (from a Washington Post article about how the internet is out of control).
quote:Leonard Kleinrock, 71, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles who is credited with sending the first message -- "lo," for "log on" -- from one computer to another in 1969
Lo.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Wasn't he friends with the first guy to make button-holes? You know, Lo and Be-holed?
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
1969 seems a little late for the first communication.
Added: According to this site the first network was created in 1965. Kleinrock was a major part of the experiment, however, so it is really only a question of the date.
quote: in 1965 working with Thomas Merrill, Roberts connected the TX-2 computer in Mass. to the Q-32 in California with a low speed dial-up telephone line creating the first (however small) wide-area computer network ever built.
The message that they were talking about was probably the first ever message sent on ARPANET, which took place in 1969.
quote: One month later, when SRI was connected to the ARPANET, the first host-to-host message was sent from Kleinrock's laboratory to SRI.