[ih] Internet: 57 years later, what does Professor Kleinrock think of the his creation?

Sat Oct 31 09:09:53 PDT 2026

The “message” we were trying to send, “login” was not designed to be of eternal significance as we celebrate it on Oct 29 each year. Consider Neal Armstrong’s  dramatic message “… one giant leap for mankind.” Or Samuel Morse’s  “What hath God wrought”.  Those guys were smart, they understood public relations, the media, the press.  We were just a bunch of nerds doing an engineering job. However, the message we sent “Lo” (which I later embellished to “Lo and Behold”) could not have been a more succinct, more powerful, more prophetic message!

Len

> On Oct 31, 2026, at 8:13 AM, Steve Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> We should mention that the late evening event on 29 October 1969 consisted
> of just two people: Charley Kline at UCLA and Bill Duvall at SRI.  The
> software at SRI connected the IMP to its terminal management software
> inside its operating system.  The software on the UCLA side was primarily a
> simple ad hoc user-level process that connected the user's terminal to the
> IMP.  The SRI system had command completion, so when Charley typed the G
> after the LO, the SRI system attempted to echo back GIN.  Bill's software
> didn't have room for three characters arriving at once, and the connection
> crashed.  Bill fixed it quickly and the test continued.  The event might
> not have gained any attention except Charley dutifully documented it in the
> lab notebook and Kleinrock, reading the log later, waxed poetic about "LO".
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2026 at 7:17 AM vinton cerf via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org <mailto:internet-history at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
> 
>> The 10/29/1969 was a two node test of the Arpanet and involved connecting a
>> terminal at UCLA to a host at SRI International that were connected via two
>> Interface Message Processors (IMPs) which we would call packet switches
>> today. There was no host level protocol for that test. The protocol that
>> linked the Arpanet hosts was developed under the leadership of Steve
>> Crocker and was eventually called either the host-to-host protocol or
>> Network Control Protocol (or Program) in 1970 (see IETF RFC document
>> series, also started by Steve Crocker; RFC 33 Feb 1970). Three of us worked
>> at the Network Measurement Lab, led by Leonard Kleinrock: Steve Crocker,
>> Vint Cerf and Jon Postel, among others. The Internet development started in
>> the Spring of 1973 at Stanford and was initiated by Bob Kahn (then at
>> DARPA) who invited Vint Cerf to work with him on the project. The
>> Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) protocol was published in May 1974 in
>> IEEE Transactions. By Dec 1974, a complete TCP spec was published in Dec
>> 1974 (RFC 675) written by Cerf, Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine at Stanford.
>> Three networks made up the cohort populating the early Internet: Arpanet,
>> Packet Radio network and the Atlantic Packet Satellite network. The first
>> two-network test of the Internet protocols occurred in Summer 1976 linking
>> the Packet Radio network to the Arpanet and was conducted by SRI
>> International. The first three network test was conducted Nov 22, 1977
>> including Packet Radio, Packet Satellite and Arpanet. Internet went
>> operational on January 1, 1983.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2026 at 3:19 AM Frantisek Borsik via Internet-history <
>> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> "Leonard Kleinrock and a team of scientists at UCLA gave life to the
>>> Internet at precisely 10:30 PM on October 29, 1969, quite literally
>>> changing the world.
>>> 
>>> 57 years later, what does Professor Kleinrock think of the his creation?"
>>> 
>>> https://x.com/lainaminute/status/2115898117229039925
>>> <
>>> 
>> https://x.com/lainaminute/status/2115898117229039925?a=bXFqldnx0o8OUK9A6xw&s=46
>>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> All the best,
>>> 
>>> Frank
>>> Frantisek (Frank) Borsik
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