<p>For those who were born Oct 29, 1969, the date is quite memorable. It was on this day that internet too came to life.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Now, the room from where the first message was sent, only to be crashed after sending just two letters, has been opened as a functional computer lab.<br /><br />The staff at Room No.3420 of Boelter Hall at University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA), communicated 45 years ago with the staff at Stanford University, using SDS Sigma 7 computer - the refrigerator-sized machine that was used to host the first message.<br /><br />"This machine is where the internet breathed to life and spoke its first words," said Leonard Kleinrock, then computer scientist and the brain behind the idea.<br />The first node was placed at the UCLA and the second at Stanford.<br /><br />That two-node transmission marked the birth of internet.<br /><br />The first message was supposed to be 'log in' but the system crashed after the 'L' and 'O' were transmitted.<br /><br />About an hour later, having recovered from the crash, the SDS Sigma 7 computer sent a full 'log in'.<br /><br />The first permanent link was then established Nov 21, 1969, between the IMP (interface message processor or router as we know today) at the UCLA and Stanford.<br /><br />By December 1969, four nodes were permanently installed at the UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, University of Utah and University of California - Santa Barbara, said a Daily Mail report.</p>
<p>For those who were born Oct 29, 1969, the date is quite memorable. It was on this day that internet too came to life.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Now, the room from where the first message was sent, only to be crashed after sending just two letters, has been opened as a functional computer lab.<br /><br />The staff at Room No.3420 of Boelter Hall at University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA), communicated 45 years ago with the staff at Stanford University, using SDS Sigma 7 computer - the refrigerator-sized machine that was used to host the first message.<br /><br />"This machine is where the internet breathed to life and spoke its first words," said Leonard Kleinrock, then computer scientist and the brain behind the idea.<br />The first node was placed at the UCLA and the second at Stanford.<br /><br />That two-node transmission marked the birth of internet.<br /><br />The first message was supposed to be 'log in' but the system crashed after the 'L' and 'O' were transmitted.<br /><br />About an hour later, having recovered from the crash, the SDS Sigma 7 computer sent a full 'log in'.<br /><br />The first permanent link was then established Nov 21, 1969, between the IMP (interface message processor or router as we know today) at the UCLA and Stanford.<br /><br />By December 1969, four nodes were permanently installed at the UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, University of Utah and University of California - Santa Barbara, said a Daily Mail report.</p>