'We were just trying to get it to work': The failure that started the internet
Emmanuel LaFontThe 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 computers some 350 miles away and started typing a message. Halfway through, it crashed. They sat down with the BBC 55 years later.At the height of the Cold War, Charley Kline and Bill Duvall were two bright-eyed engineers on the front lines of one of technology's most ambitious experiments. ...
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