Event 3 - Leonard Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site
Event 3 - Leonard Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site Front door of 3420 Boelter Hall, the location of the Leonard Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site On October 29th, 1969, Charley Kline, an engineering graduate student at the time working under the supervision of Prof. Kleinrock, sent the first ever message on ARPANET, a precursor to the Internet and World Wide Web, 350 miles up the coast to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). The message: “Lo”. Attempting to type the word “login”, Kline had accomplished the incredible feat at 10:30pm right here at UCLA in 3420 Boelter Hall. Today, I visited the very location the message was sent from. The room, previously an undergraduate classroom, is know the location for the Leonard Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site. The site was reconstructed nearly a decade ago in order to commemorate the so called “Birthplace of the Internet”. In it are the remnants of the old computer room with sixties-era furniture, a Teletype ASR-33 type
