Actor Michael Caine plays the cockney spy Harry Palmer in the 1967 movie "Billion Dollar Brain." A Honeywell computer, like one that the UCLA team used to connect to ARPANET, is the basis of a huge film set at Pinewood Studios. Keystone/Getty Images
This week marked the 150th anniversary of the telegraph linking the U.S. from coast to coast. This week also marks another communication anniversary – the first message sent from one computer to another computer on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
QUESTION:
In what year was the first computer-to-computer link made on ARPANET, the first modern computer network?
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