The Internet turns 40.

• Position: TECHNOLOGY - Brief article

On Oct. 29, 1969, a U.C.L.A. computer scientist tried to send the message "LOGIN" to a computer 350 mites away at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California. The massive computers crashed, leaving "LO" as the first message sent via ARPANET, the Internet's predecessor. The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network was built for the Defense Department during the Cold War to (ink computers at research tabs. Leonard Kteinrock, who sent that first message...