April 1, 2011 – In 1969, a group of UCLA engineers sent the first-ever Internet message from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute. Leonard Kleinrock, computer science professor and Internet technology pioneer, recounts what the message was supposed to be and what actually happened.
The room where this message was sent from is in the works to become an Internet Heritage Site and Archive. Read the full story here.
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History doctoral candidate Brad Fidler discovered that the first Internet message was sent from a room on the UCLA campus in 1969, using the Interface Message Processor shown here.
