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Lost LA

How This Contraption at UCLA Sent the First DM

Nathan Masters heads to the UCLA Library Special Collections to visit Professor Kleinrock and go through his collection. Kleinrock reveals the one document that has written proof of the date and time that “LO” was sent. The only proof of this huge moment in our computer science history.

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