The first message sent over Arpanet was an inauspicious start to what would grow into the internet (Credit: Emmanuel LaFont) ...

Discover the historic moment when scientists sent the first ARPANET message, LO, marking the dawn of the internet age.

When the computer science department of Carnegie Mellon University expanded in the 1970s, this created a massive issue for certain individuals who now found that they had to walk quite a distance ...

Led by Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA's professor of computer science at that time, the team launched ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet. The message they sent to the Stanford Research ...

This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Can you describe the computers that enabled Arpanet? Were these massive, noisy machines? Kline: They were small computers – by standards of ...