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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Friends and Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Tuesday 29 October 2019 marked 50 years since the first message was sent over what later became to be the “Internet”. A guest post by Prof. <i>Leonard Kleinrock</i>, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, UCLA on the first message and what led to it can be read here >> <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/the-first-message-transmission">https://www.icann.org/news/blog/the-first-message-transmission</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Towards the bottom of the blog post is a Youtube video where Prof. Kleinrock, <i>Vint Cerf</i>, and <i>Steve Crocker</i> discussed there. The Youtube video is here >> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZjeiy00Yng&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZjeiy00Yng&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Happy reading and watching.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Fahd Batayneh<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>ICANN<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>