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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Today is October 29. On this day in 1969, around 10:30 p.m., the first message was sent over ARPANET, the precursor to the internet.

UCLA Professor of Computer Science Leonard Kleinrock and his student Charley Kline had been at work, setting up a message transmission to go from the ‘UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host’ computer, all the way to the ‘SRI SDS 940 Host’ computer, which was manned by Bill Duvall at the Stanford Research Institute, 350 miles away.

The professor had been working on a method of information transfer called packet switching that was implemented in ARPANET, which broke down information into smaller bundles of information that could be routed independently and reassembled at the destination, with lost packets retransmitted as needed.

Charley manned the helm, sending off the first message, which was meant to be “login”. However, the system crashed after the first two letters were sent. So the first message on the internet was just “lo”. A couple hours later, they completed the transmission. This one message began a chain reaction that led to the internet as we know it today.

Sources used for this story:

• https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-29/first-electronic-message-sent-arpanet-internet-precursor
• https://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/internet_first_words.html

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI)– A sharp rise in drivers ignoring school bus stop signs in Bonneville County has bus drivers and deputies on edge, warning that one careless mistake could cost a child’s life.

In just nine weeks of the school year, Bonneville bus driver Jenny Sharp has already recorded as many stop arm violations as she saw all of last year, a surge local law enforcement calls for concern.

“So far this year, I have seen an increase of stop arm violations. In the nine weeks, ten weeks that we’ve been in school, I have had as many so far in these nine and ten weeks as I had all last school year,” Sharp said.

Bryan Lovell from the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office says this increase in school bus stop violations is shocking.

“Our deputies have been receiving six to 10 stop arm violations a week just in the last month or so. And that’s that’s quite a bit. It’s quite unusual,” Lovell said.

But why? Both Sharp and Lovell believe that drivers are either not paying attention or in a hurry.

“I want to tell the drivers to slow down, especially when you see a school bus driver. If their amber lights are on, that doesn’t mean speed up and get around them. That means come to a complete stop before the red lights come on,” Sharp said.

“It’s important to really remind drivers and message out to motorists that they need to use extra caution and pay attention around these big yellow buses,” Lovell said.