What hath God wrought? First Telegraphic Message, May 24, 1844.
Samuel F. B. Morse...from the B&O's Mount Clare Station in
Baltimore to the Capitol Building in Washington.


Alexander Graham Bell's first words over the telephone:
Speaking through the instrument to his assistant,
Thomas A. Watson, in the next room, Bell said,
"Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you."

and the first computer message:
And frankly, all we wanted to do was log in -- to type an l-o-g, and the remote time-sharing system knows what you're trying to do.

So we typed the "l," and we asked over the phone, "Did you get the 'l?' " And the response came back, "Yep, we got the 'l.' " We typed the "o." "Got the 'o?' " " 'Yep, got the 'o.' " Typed the 'g.' "You get the 'g?' " Crash! SRI's host crashed at that point. So the very first message ever on the Internet was the very simple, very prophetic "lo," as in lo and behold.

"on New Year's Day 1994....there were an estimated 623 websites"

I remember hearing that some of the history of the internet stemmed from a military communication system....

the arrival of the internet in the shape we know it today was never a matter of inevitability. It was a crucial idiosyncracy of the Arpanet that its funding came from the American defence establishment...the
Arpanet took it's name from Arpa, the Advanced Research Projects Agency.