stackyFACTSThe digital network that currently handles billions of cat videos a second had an incredibly pathetic debut.
The digital network that currently handles billions of cat videos a second had an incredibly pathetic debut. In 1969, UCLA researchers attempted to send the word 'LOGIN' to a computer at Stanford using the newly built ARPANET. They successfully typed 'L' and 'O', but when they pressed the 'G', the entire system spectacularly crashed under the sheer weight of three letters. The very first internet communication essentially amounted to an accidental, system-destroying typo.
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