50 yrs. ago today

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Tue Oct 29 11:31:53 CDT 2019


On 10/29/19 6:15 AM, 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.

50 years ago, inter-computer communication was common enough that it was
a standard option in most vendors' catalogs.

Maybe you've got a digit wrong?

--Chuck



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