Email Turns 40
The very first message to be sent between two computers – a breakthrough that helped bring us what we now know as the internet – was sent 40 years ago this week.
The first message ever sent over the ARPANET occurred at 10.30pm on October 29, 1969. It was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline and supervised by Prof Leonard Kleinrock.
The message was sent from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer.
Like most systems of the era, the latter machine had a tiny core memory allowing between 16 and 64 kilowords.
UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock said at a party marking the occasion:
‘The internet is a democratising element; everyone has an equivalent voice. There is no way back at this point. We can’t turn it off. The Internet Age is here.’
He referred to spam emails, online scams and malicious software spread by crooks as an unexpected dark side of the internet.
‘The net is penetrating every aspect of our lives,’ Kleinrock told a gathering of about 200 people in Los Angeles.
‘As a teenager, the internet is behaving badly, the dark side has emerged. The question is when it grows into a young adult, will it get over this period of misbehaving?’
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