50 yrs. ago today

[Mike Loewen]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:

> The first inter-computer  communication happened 50 years ago today. L.
> Kleinrock part of that historic moment, said, and I paraphrase here,
> ARPANET was the instrument that was to enable computers to talk to each
> other remotely. He sent ?LO? because the system crashed(how surprising was
> that!) This was the precursor to the inter-net, moving from the intra-net.
>
> Happy computing all!

    You may want to reword that statement ("first inter-computer 
communication"). The SAGE Direction Center computers were talking to each 
other (cross-tell) in 1958, via Bell 101 modems.


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