Oct 29, 2026, 4:51 AMOn this day in 1969 ARPANET went live for the first time. It would later evolve into the Internet.
"On October 29, 1969, at 10:30pm Pacific Time, the first two letters were transmitted over ARPANET. And then it crashed. "
- Oct 29, 2026, 4:51 AM
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Karl Auerbachkarlauerbach@sfba.socialOct 29, 2026, 5:56 AM@liw There is a good chance that when that happened I was in the next room. Really. I worked nights using the IBM 7094 in the room at UCLA next to the Sigma 7 and IMP #1.
- Oct 29, 2026, 6:09 AM
@karlauerbach That's awesome!
eskoesko@hcommons.socialOct 29, 2026, 5:59 AM@liw would have been better to install linux
Oct 29, 2026, 7:14 AM
Lou.gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.placeOct 29, 2026, 11:29 AM
Unix Herderhippiegunnut@oldbytes.spaceOct 29, 2026, 9:05 AM@liw @chexum Although the bit that doesn’t get mentioned as often is the UK’s NPL network was first active in January 1969 and the French CYCLADES went active in the early 1970’s and they and other international networks contributed to the evolving standards that became the internet when the international networks started being joined together.
Matthias MProvemprove@hci.socialOct 29, 2026, 1:09 PM@liw Yeah! The first signals actually went through 2 weeks earlier; if RFC4 is accurate
https://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc4.html
