Once everything was wired, they ordered up a round of beers and fired off the first email over the internet. Within milliseconds, it left Zott’s via the bread truck’s mobile radio unit and traveled to a second network—the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, ARPANET—and on to its final destination in Boston. The dispatch was the first time two distinct computer networks were linked. In another year, three networks would be “internetworked” and the web as we know it would be well on its way.
