Oct. 29 (UPI) --Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of a milestone event that helped shape the modern Internet -- the first-ever computer linkup and the first electronic message sent over the U.S.

On October 29, 1969, the first successful message was sent over ARPANET. UCLA student Charley Kline transmitted from an SDS Sigma 7 computer to an SDS 940 machine at the Stanford Research Institute.

The notebook that documented the first “internet” connection made on the ARPANET on October 29, 1969 at UCLA Image: (UCLA Special Collections) Fifty years ago today, on October 29, 1969, the internet ...

The first public demonstration of ARPANET takes place during the International Conference on Computer Communications in Washington, DC. Two of the organizers of the demonstration are Robert Kahn from ...

Lawrence Roberts, acknowledged as the designer of ARPANET, the precursor of today's internet, passed away on Dec. 26 in his home in Redwood City, Calif. Roberts, 81, died of a heart attack, according ...

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