On August 30, 1969, The first Interface Message Processor (IMP) is delivered to Leonard Kleinrock’s research group at UCLA. The IMP was the device that would interconnect networks between research facilities on the developing ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. As a packet-switching device, the IMP can be considered the first generation of what we now call network routers. The second IMP was delivered to the Stanford Research Institute on October 1, 1969 and the first message between the two IMPs was sent on October 29, 1969, which is now considered the first message ever sent on the Internet.
Related Posts
September 5: Last IBM “Stretch” Computer Shut Down
0n September 5, 1980, The last IBM 7030 “Stretch” mainframe in active use is decommissioned at Brigham Young University. The…
September 11: First Public Remote Computation is Demonstrated
On September 11, 1940, During a meeting of the American Mathematical Society at Dartmouth College, the first public…
September 29: Microsoft Word 1.0 released
On September 29, 1983, Microsoft launches Microsoft Word 1.0. Word for MS-DOS was the first word processor to…