Fifty-five years ago today (October 29, 1969) the first message was sent from what was the embryo of the Internet. The very modern “missive” should have started its virtual journey from the University of California and arrived at Stanford University. The established word was “login”. But it was enough for the Californian student, Charley Kline, to type the letters “l” and “o” on Arpanet (the precursor of the Internet, in fact), to crash the entire network.
But just an hour later, everything was restored and the recipient, Professor Bill Duval, received the message in full. It was, of course, an epochal turning point. Since then the Internet has made unthinkable evolutions. But today, we occasionally miss that crash after the second letter.