Saturday, July 25, 2026

Question: In 1969, a UCLA team sent the first message over the network that became the internet. They tried to type “LOGIN,” but the system crashed. What two letters actually got through?

Answer: L and O. On October 29, 1969, UCLA student Charley Kline started typing “login” to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute, but the system crashed after two letters. So the first message ever sent over the ARPANET, forerunner of the internet, was simply “lo.”