INTRODUCTION
INTERNET HISTORY
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Question
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Tim Berner-Lee
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Charley Kline
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Thomas Edison
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Michael Kors
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Detailed explanation-1: -The exchange took place when UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock and his student and programmer Charley Kline set up a message transmission to go from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to another programmer, Bill Duvall, at Stanford Research Institute.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fast forward to 1971, and the first-ever email was sent by Ray Tomlinson, a computer engineer and programmer for BBN Technologies. By this time the ARPANET connected 15 computers. Tomlinson had the bright idea of using the “” symbol to separate the name of the addressee from his location.
Detailed explanation-3: -That very first text, sent on the 3rd December 1992, simply said, “Merry Christmas.” Neil Papworth who sent the world’s first text message on 3 December 1992.
Detailed explanation-4: -The message was simply “Lo” instead of the intended word, “login.” “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.