Next year maybe I'll find another great occasion for 29 October. This time I'm celebrating the usual Internet tidbit (or should I say tidbyte?) about the very first computer-to-computer electronic communication. As recorded in Wikipedia: "The first message on the ARPANET was sent by UCLA student programmer
Charley Kline, at 10:30 pm on 29 October 1969, from Boelter Hall 3420.
Kline transmitted from the university's SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the
Stanford Research Institute's SDS 940 Host computer. The message text
was the word
login; the
l and the
o letters were transmitted, but the system then crashed. Hence, the literal first message over the ARPANET was
lo. About an hour later, having recovered from the crash, the SDS Sigma 7 computer effected a full
login."
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