🔬 The internet's first message: "LO" (1969)
Where: UCLA, Los Angeles
Nearby on the globe: Santa Monica Pier → 🌍 Open the 3D globe
📅 On This Day: October 29
October 29, 1969: The internet's first message: "LO". On this night in 1969, a computer at UCLA sent the first message to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute, about 560 km away. It was supposed to say "LOGIN", but the system crashed after just "LO". That tiny hello was the start of today's internet.
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🧠 Question of the day
Which letters made it through in the first internet message?
- HI
- LO
- OK
Show the answer
Answer: LO
Questions
What happened on October 29?
October 29, 1969: The internet's first message: "LO". It happened in UCLA, Los Angeles.
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Source: ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969