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    1971Email crosses the network Influence 1948A Mathematical Theory of Communication Shared thread 1990WorldWideWeb Shared thread 1959MOSFET Shared thread 1969ARPANET Shared thread 1936Turing machine Shared thread

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    Computers connect over ARPANET

    The celebrated two-letter “LO” crash was not this event — the durable UCLA–SRI connection came later, on 21 November 1969.

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