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oct 29, 1969 - First Packets on ARPANET Sent

Description:

-Charley Kline at UCLA sent the first packets on ARPANET as he tried to connect to Stanford Research Institute
-They succeeded in transmitting the "I" and the "o" ad then the system crashed
-About an hour later, they were able to send the entire word

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Date:

oct 29, 1969
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~ 56 years ago