Quick facts
Milestone: First computer-to-computer transmission
When: 10:30 p.m. on Oct. 29, 1969
Where: Los Angeles to Menlo Park, California
Who: Graduate student Charley Kline to computer engineer Bill Duvall
Late one evening, UCLA graduate student Charley Kline sat in front of a refrigerator-sized computer and sent the message "lo" to a rack of computers operated by systems engineer Bill Duvall at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), hundreds of miles away.
