On October 29, 1969, a UCLA student named Charley Kline tried to send the word 'LOGIN' over ARPANET to Stanford, and the system crashed after the letter O — making the first message ever transmitted across the internet the accidental, almost biblical 'LO'

At roughly 10:30 p.m. on October 29, 1969, a UCLA graduate student named Charley Kline put on a telephone headset, sat down at a computer terminal in Boelter Hall, and began typing the word that wo...