The Internet Turns 40

[Robin Landseadel]

Chris Weigant reports at the Huffington Post:

	Tomorrow is the internet's fortieth birthday. Its creators are even
	throwing it a birthday party at the University of California, Los
	Angeles, the origin of the first message ever transmitted over
	what we know today as "the internet," on October 29, 1969. If
	you're wondering what the first message ever transmitted was --
	the digital age's "Come here, Watson," statement, as it were -- it
	consisted of two letters: "LO." It was actually supposed to be
	"LOG," as in "LOG IN," but the receiving computer crashed after
	receiving just the first two letters -- not a very auspicious
	beginning, it must be admitted. Still, for poetic reasons, "LO"
	seems pretty apt: "Lo! The Internet was created!" . . .


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