ARPANET Goes Live
The first message, 'LO', was sent from UCLA to SRI, marking the birth of packet-switched networking. The system would expand to four nodes by December of that year.
Significance
This event was the foundational step for all modern computer networking, demonstrating the viability of distributed packet-switched communication, a prerequisite for distributed applications.
Key facts
- Date
- 1969-10-29
- Type
- milestone
- Location
- UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara, University of Utah