No fanfare. No cleverly contrived quote for the history books. And yet, at 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1969, three months after Neil Armstrong’s famous step, came another giant leap for mankind.

The first message sent over Arpanet was an inauspicious start to what would grow into the internet (Credit: Emmanuel LaFont) On 29 October 1969, two scientists established a connection between ...

It was mid-1971. Ten scientists met at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Tech Square in Cambridge. They had been given a task by the director of the Pentagon’s Information Processing Techniques ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. This essay is the last of a four-part series, which commemorates the anniversary of the first ever message sent across the ...

On October 29, 1969, the first successful message was sent over ARPANET. UCLA student Charley Kline transmitted from an SDS Sigma 7 computer to an SDS 940 machine at the Stanford Research Institute.

In 1966 IBM mainframes could only connect to other IBM mainframes, Burroughs only to other Burroughs, etc. Beginning in 1967 the US Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) office ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. This essay is the third of a four-part series, which commemorates the anniversary of the first ever message sent across the ...

The ARPANET made its first host-to-host connection on October 29, 1969 and from there slowly grew into a behemoth, laying the groundwork for our modern internet. The good folks over at Smithsonian ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. ICANN Board Chairman Steve Crocker recalls his work on ARPANET, a military network that helped lay the foundation ...

Computers cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in the 1960s. What's more, they took up a lot of space. That meant there weren't many powerful computers to go around for the military ...