ScienceSilicon Canalsabout 21 hours ago
First internet message was LO after crash
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On October 29, 1969, UCLA student Charley Kline attempted to send 'LOGIN' over ARPANET to Stanford. The system crashed after transmitting the letters 'L' and 'O', making 'LO' the first message ever sent across what became the internet. The crash occurred due to a memory buffer failure.
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