What was the first message sent over the internet?
The first message sent over ARPANET, the internet's ancestor, went from UCLA to Stanford Research Institute on October 29, 1969. It was supposed to be "LOGIN," but the system crashed after "LO."
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When did the internet switch to TCP/IP?
On January 1, 1983, ARPANET officially switched to the TCP/IP protocol, which many consider the true birth of the modern internet.
Who invented TCP/IP?
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn designed TCP/IP, the basic communication rules of the internet, in 1974, and ARPANET switched to it on January 1, 1983.