... connected September 2, 1969, and it was to function as the Network Measurement Center. The remaining three nodes were set up at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) on October 1, 1969, the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) on November 1, 1969, and at the University of Utah in December. The first packets between systems were sent by Charley Kline at UCLA as he tried logging into ... e-mail program to send messages across a distributed network. He later modified the program in 1972 for ARPANET where it rapidly became popular. The first international connection to APRPANET was the...

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