UCLA

UCLA was established in 1882 as “State Normal School at Los Angeles”, to train teachers for the rapidly growing population of Southern California. In 1927 the school was eventually renamed University of California, Los Angeles. As one of the biggest universities in the USA, students can study pretty much everything from art to space technology at UCLA.
August 30th 1969, the year Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, can be seen as a historical day in the history of the internet. UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock set up the first node of the ARPANET with an IMP hooked up to a computer terminal. On October 1st 1969 SRI researcher Doug Engelbart joined Kleinrock. Four weeks later, on October 29th the first packet was transmitted, when Charley Kline from UCLA tried to login on the SRI terminal.

On the first attempt he typed in the letter ‘L’ from ‘LOGIN’ and asked through a telephone if SRI received the ‘L’. SRI answered with ‘Yes!’. Kline typed in the ‘O’, asked if it arrived in Stanford and got another ’Yes!’. It was over after typing in the ‘G’ when the whole system collapsed. On the second attempt Kline could login at Stanford, and the first packet in the history of the internet has been sent.
Other internet pioneers who worked at UCLA at one time are Vinton CERF, one of the developers of the TCP protocol, who is often called the “father of internet”, and Paul Baran, who made his master in 1959 at UCLA to work for RAND afterwards.