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📍Room 3420, Boelter Hall, UCLA: The birthplace of the Internet [Image descriptions: A photograph of Room 3420 with vintage computer equipment, mathematical formulas, and large yellow text reading “THIS ROOM CHANGED THE WORLD.” A UCLA logo appears in the upper right. Blue graphic with white and yellow text: “On October 29, 1969, UCLA researchers sent the first message over ARPANET, a precursor to today’s internet, from Room 3420 in Boelter Hall.” Blue-tinted photograph of historical research documents with text: “UCLA student Charley Kline, under professor Leonard Kleinrock, attempted to log in to a computer at Stanford Research Institute.” Two blue-tinted archival photographs. The top shows four men working around early computer equipment; the bottom shows a man standing beside a chalkboard filled with equations. Blue graphic with text: “The intended message was ‘LOGIN,’ but the system crashed after transmitting just two letters.” Below is an illustration of a vintage computer displaying “LO.” Blue graphic featuring a handwritten computer log from October 29, 1969, above text reading: “The connection was restored, and the complete message was successfully transmitted.” Blue-tinted archival photograph of a man beside computer equipment with text: “57 years later, the world is connected.” Blue-tinted close-up of a vintage interface message processor with text: “What began as an experiment at UCLA helped lay the foundation for the internet we know today.” Blue graphic with white and yellow text: “Follow @ucla for more stories behind the breakthroughs that changed our world.”]

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