29 Oct
2017
29 Oct
'17
8:44 a.m.
On Sat, 28 Oct 2017, William Cheswick wrote:
The third character was “g”, and the ensuing
“log" command crashed the
server at SRI. AsI recall, the connection was made from UCLA to SRI.
Leonard Kleinrocktells this story sometimes.
Thanks; here we are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Kleinrock#ARPANET
The first message on the ARPANET was sent by UCLA student programmer
Charley Kline, at 10:30 p.m, on October 29, 1969 from Boelter Hall 3420,
the school's main engineering building. Supervised by Kleinrock, Kline
transmitted from the university's SDS Sigma 7 host computer to the
Stanford Research Institute's SDS 940 host computer. The message text was
the word "login"; the "l" and the "o" letters were
transmitted, but the
system then crashed. Hence, the literal first message over the ARPANET
was "lo". About an hour later, having recovered from the crash, the SDS
Sigma 7 computer effected a full "login". The first permanent ARPANET
link was established on November 21, 1969, between the IMP at UCLA and the
IMP at the Stanford Research Institute. By December 5, 1969, the entire
four-node network was established.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."