The first message transmitted between two networked computers occurred on Oct 29th, 1969 at 2230 hrs. when Leonard Kleinrock and Charley Kline sent a LOG IN message from UCLA (Westwood, CA) to Stanford Research Institute (Menlo Park, CA). Leon Kleinrock tells it like it was here. NPR also produced a 'Lo' And Behold: A Communication Revolution tribute to the Internet's 40th Anniversary. Forty years. Amazing. The blink of an eye...
Happy Birthday to you, Internet!