Modern Era · North America · Technology
1969
ARPANET sends first message
October 29, 1969
From a UCLA lab, a student tried to log into a computer at Stanford Research Institute. He typed L, then O, and the system crashed. The first word transmitted on what would become the Internet was therefore lo. Few present thought of the moment as historic. Within thirty years it would have quietly rewritten civilization.
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Also in 1969 (6 other events on record)
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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