@oddityvault72: On the night of October 29, 1969, a UCLA student programmer named Charley Kline sat down at a computer the size of a refrigerator and tried to send the first message ever transmitted over ARPANET, the precursor to the internet, to a machine at the Stanford Research Institute about 350 miles away. The plan was to type "LOGIN," but the system crashed after just two letters. The first message ever sent between networked computers was therefore "LO," which sounds almost like a biblical greeting. Roughly an hour later, the bug was fixed and the full login went through. The accidental "lo" has since become one of tech history's favorite bits of unintentional poetry, marking the humble, glitchy start of the digital age.

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