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ARPANET sends its first host-to-host message
From How the Internet Was Built: From Four Computers to a Global Network
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Breakthrough
ARPANET sends its first host-to-host message
A message travelled from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute over the experimental packet-switched ARPANET.
The team intended to transmit “LOGIN,” but the system crashed after “LO.” The incomplete message still marked a decisive transition: distant computers could communicate by dividing data into packets. By the end of 1969, ARPANET connected four hosts. It was an important predecessor, not yet the modern Internet.Sources & references 2 sources
