<div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span>The "LO" in the title of this panel represents the first message successfully sent on the ARPANET on October 29 1969. As noted in Wikipedia:<div class="gmail_default"><br></div>"The message text was the word login; the l and the o letters were transmitted, but the system then crashed. Hence, the literal first message over the ARPANET was lo. About an hour later, having recovered from the crash, the SDS Sigma 7 computer effected a full login"  <div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u><div class="gmail-m_-7479818657169672964subscription-body-tag"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD" style="width:673.636px;background:rgb(221,221,221)"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" class="gmail-m_-7479818657169672964subscribe-body" style="width:653.636px;padding:10px"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0px auto;overflow:hidden"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" class="gmail-m_-7479818657169672964subscribe-wrapper" style="width:600px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0px auto"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="8" class="gmail-m_-7479818657169672964subscribe-header-wrap" style="width:600px;background-image:url("https://s0.wp.com/i/emails/stripes.gif");background-repeat:repeat-x;background-color:rgb(67,164,208);height:8px"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table><br><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width:600px"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:560px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="gmail-m_-7479818657169672964the-post"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:560px"><tbody></tbody></table><div class="gmail-m_-7479818657169672964post-content" style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;max-width:560px"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/arpanet50" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)"><img border="0" class="gmail-m_-7479818657169672964size-medium gmail-m_-7479818657169672964wp-image-10943" src="https://isoc.live/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/arpanet50-300x169.png" alt="livestream" width="300" height="169" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"></a>The <strong><a href="https://www.aaas.org/resources/2019-aaas-annual-meeting" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting</a></strong> was held in Washington, DC earlier in February with the theme <strong>'<strong>Science Transcending Boundaries</strong>'.</strong> Attendees celebrated three <strong><a href="https://meetings.aaas.org/program/celebrating-scientific-milestones/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">scientific milestones</a></strong>: 1) 150 years ago Dmitri Mendeleev presented the Periodic Table to the Russian Chemical Society; 2) 50 years ago the first moon walk by Neil Armstrong, made possible by Apollo 11’s successful landing on the moon; and 3) the first <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">ARPANET</a></strong> message was sent from the University of California, Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute. This early network became the basis for today’s Internet. In the case of the latter two, not only was a <strong><a href="http://bit.ly/2BT6GK0" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">large cake cut</a></strong> and distributed, but also a panel convened of original ARPANET researchers/engineers <strong>Vint Cerf</strong>, <strong>Stephen D. Crocker</strong>, <strong>Robert E. Kahn</strong>, <strong>Leonard Kleinrock</strong> and <strong>David Walden</strong>.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">Today, <strong>Wednesday 27 February 2019</strong> at <strong>2pm</strong> ET (19:00 UTC) the <strong><a href="https://isoc.live/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">Internet Society Livestream Channel</a> </strong>will restream that panel.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"></p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: <a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/arpanet50" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">https://livestream.com/internetsociety/arpanet50</a></strong></p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>ORIGINAL WEBCAST: <a href="https://meetings.aaas.org/arpanet-livestream/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">https://meetings.aaas.org/arpanet-livestream/</a></strong></p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>TRANSCRIPT: <a href="https://recapd.com/w-f2c5e8/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">https://recapd.com/w-f2c5e8/</a></strong></p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>TWITTER: #AAASmtg + arpanet <a href="http://bit.ly/2BQ9l7w" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">http://bit.ly/2BQ9l7w</a></strong></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#efefef" class="gmail-m_-7479818657169672964subscribe-wrapper-sub" style="width:600px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239);border-top:1px solid rgb(221,221,221)"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-m_-7479818657169672964subscribe-content" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-top:1px solid rgb(243,243,243);color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:14px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><p style="direction:ltr;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;margin:0px 0px 10px"><br></p><p style="direction:ltr;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;margin:0px"><strong><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Permalink</span></strong> <br><a href="https://isoc.live/10942/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">https://isoc.live/10942/</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="3" class="gmail-m_-7479818657169672964subscribe-footer-wrap" style="width:600px;background-image:url("https://s0.wp.com/i/emails/stripes.gif");background-repeat:repeat-x;background-color:rgb(67,164,208);height:3px"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br></td></tr></tbody></table><img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?blog=151329629&post=10942&subd=isoc.live&ref=&email=1&email_o=jetpack&host=jetpack.wordpress.com" width="1" height="1"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/t.gif?email_name=email_subscription&blog_id=151329629&_ui=2239291&email_id=9a00f82fc3f277286de5ca3b27a66835&date_sent=2019-02-27&domain=isoc.live&frequency=0&digest=0&has_html=1&locale=en&_en=wpcom_email_open&browser_type=php-agent&_aua=wpcom-tracks-client-v0.3&_ul=wwwhatsup1&_ut=wpcom%3Auser_id&blog_tz=-5&blog_lang=0&user_lang=en&_ts=1551291137854" width="1" height="1"><span class="gmail_default"></span></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>