The 50 Most Important Websites of All Time

(via Popular Mechanics) Charles Kline’s first attempt to send a message over ARPANET, the early computer network that would birth the internet as we know it, was a bit of a bust. Sitting at his massive mainframe computer at the University of California, Los Angeles, the grad student sent an “L” to another apartment-sized machine at Stanford University. Then an “O.” But before Kline could get to the “G” in his attempt to send the word “LOGIN,” the system crashed. He would revive the connection later that night and successfully transmit all five letters, but it wouldn’t matter if he hadn’t. He had already made history. On October 29, 1969, “LO” was the first message successfully sent over a computer-to-computer network. The web has come a log way… here are 50 of the most important websites of all time.