Technology Tip Thursday: The Internet's First Message & Mishap 📩

We’re here to bring you another 💡 Technology Tip Thursday! 💡 This week’s tech tip marks the introduction of how we communicate through the internet today. 

Did you know that it was this month in 1969 that the first message between two computers was sent and received?

On October 29, 1969, the first message was sent over the ARPANET, the internet's precursor, between UCLA and Stanford Research Institute. The message, intended to be the word "login," was sent by UCLA student Charley Kline but the system crashed after the first two letters were transmitted, making the historic first message "lo". After the crash, the system was rebooted and the complete "login" message was successfully sent an hour later.

Technology can be funny sometimes and what was supposed to be an iconic moment turned into a crash. It still made our history books though! 

So this begs us to ask the question, what are some of your funniest or most memorable message failures? Maybe Autocorrect turned a word into something different? Your finger slipped while typing?

We want to hear it! Also make sure to comment on some of your favorite mishaps!