We are living through a decisive moment for humanity. The combination of unprecedented computing power and storage capacity, alongside the accelerated advance of artificial intelligence, is transforming the world as we know it.
With this in mind, when searching for a name for our company, we wanted to draw inspiration from other historic moments that marked a before and after.
We firmly believe that the summer of 1969 was a historic moment, as it concentrated a series of milestones that changed the course of society — and whose influence continues to be felt more than half a century later.
Just as then, today we stand before a unique opportunity to redefine the future. And we want to be part of that transformation.
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took the first step on the Moon. This achievement impacted and continues to impact humanity to this day. Curiously, the technology that put man on the Moon is less advanced than the key fob of our modern cars.
As a fascinating technical detail, there were the "little old ladies" and their work known as "rope memory": memory literally woven by hand.
The AGC used a type of memory called Core Rope Memory, where a 1 was represented by threading a wire through a core and a 0 by passing the wire around the outside. That code was sewn by women from textile factories, known as the little old ladies, whose precision had to be perfect: one mistake = one lost mission.
The software was literally embroidered.
The first trip to the Moon was not programmed. It was woven.
In October 1969, at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) at UCLA, the first node of the ARPANET network was created. Doug Engelbart saw the ARPA experiment as an opportunity to explore large-scale distributed collaboration across different locations.
A computer attempted to send an electronic message.
The word was: "LOGIN"
But only two letters arrived: "LO".
The system crashed.
And those two letters —LO— became the first digital message in history.
ARPANET was born with 4 nodes. That academic experiment was the seed of the greatest nervous system ever created by humanity: the Internet.