‘We were just trying to get it to work’: The failure that started the internet

BBC – “On 29 October 1969, two scientists established a connection between computers some 350 miles away and started typing a message. Halfway through, it crashed. They sat down with the BBC 55 years later. At the height of the Cold War, Charley Kline and Bill Duvall were two bright-eyed engineers on the front lines […]