OMG… we can give thanks today for what might be called the 40^th anniversary of the Internet… and the simple network message that started it all:  “lo.”  On October 29, 1969, that message became the first ever to travel between two computers connected via the ARPANET, the computer network that would become the Internet.  The electronic dispatch was supposed to be the word “login,” but only the first two letters were successfully sent… before THE SYSTEM CRASHED.  Five minutes later, the first piece of SPAM came over… advertising a porn site.