<human>: Can I get some information about the history of the Internet?
<bot>: The first message was sent over ARPANET, a precursor to the internet. It was sent in 1969 by computer scientist and inventor Ray Tomlinson. He used his own computer at BBN Technologies to send the message from his office in Massachusetts to another computer in California. This was the first time that two computers were connected via a network. In 1971, the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was established as an experimental communication system connecting universities, research labs and government agencies across the United States. By the late 1970s, ARPANET had grown into the modern-day Internet.