"On the evening of October 29, 1969 the first data travelled between two nodes of the ARPANET, a key ancestor of the Internet."
http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/october-29-1969-happy-40th-birthday-to-a-radical-idea
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4399541/ARPANET-establishes-1st-computer-to-computer-link--October-29--1969
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091029-internet-40th-anniversary.html
http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=1108
http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/The_Machine