The Computer That Sent World’s 1st Email
“The very first message to be sent between two computers – a breakthrough that helped usher in the internet and Mail Online – was sent exactly 40 years ago. And to mark the occasion, celebrities, computer experts and entrepreneurs joined the man behind that first message for a bit of a party. UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock said: ‘It’s the 40th year since the infant internet first spoke. On October 29, 1969, Kleinrock led a team that got a computer at UCLA to ‘talk’ to one at a research institute. ‘It feels to me like the alumni meeting of the framers of the US Constitution,’ Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow said as he addressed the gathering. ‘There are a lot of people in this room who are honest to God uncles and aunts of the internet. What you did is conceivably the most important technological event since the capture of fire.” w/ photos
