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Today, 40 years ago, at 10:30pm, the first ever message sent through ARPANET was made. – October 29, 2009

(Edit: Nooo… I posted 1 second too late! – Published on: Oct 30, 2009 @ 0:00)

The image on the left is an excerpt of the IMP (Internet Message Protocol) log at UCLA. It describes “setting up a message transmission to go from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer.”

Happy Birthday Internet!

Read more technical details on Wikipedia: ARPANET.

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