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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Oldest Hack Sept. 1970 Just for Fun



On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 11:14:56 PST, "Gary E. Miller" said:

> If I hear one more time that the internet was invented in the '90s,
> or Al Gore invented it in the '80s, or MIT invented it in the '70s
> I am gonna scream!  We were hacking the net in the '60s!

http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/:

First packets sent by Charley Kline at UCLA as he tried logging into SRI. The
first attempt resulted in the system crashing as the letter G of LOGIN was
entered. (October 29, 1969)

http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/internet_history/full_size_images/imp_log.jpg

So was that you, or were you hacking some other net in the 60s? ;)

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