The internet's first word was an accident.

On October 29, 1969, at about 10:30 p.m., UCLA graduate student Charley Kline sat at a terminal and began typing "LOGIN." The message was headed over ARPANET to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute, roughly 380 miles away.

He got as far as "L" and "O." Then the system crashed.

About an hour later the connection worked, and that link between two research computers became the seed of a network that grew into today's internet: email, video calls and every post you scroll.

What do you think the engineers in that room imagined their network would become?

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