From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   Sent (says Crystal) by Neil Papworth (using a personal computer) to   
   RIchard Jarvis in Newbury, Berkshire (using an Orbitel 901, which   
   weighed over 4 pounds). It said: "Merry Christmas".   
      
   In Werner Herzog's 2016 film "Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected   
   World", Prof.Leonard Kleinrock tells the story of the first message sent   
   on ARPANET. On October 29, 1969, Kleinrock and his student Charley Kline   
   were at an SDS Sigma 7 computer in the engineering school at UCLA,   
   getting ready to send a message:   
      
   "All we wanted to do was log in from our computer to a computer 400   
   miles to the north up at Stanford Research Institute.   
   To log in, you have to type "L O G" and that machine was smart enough to   
   type the "I N".   
   To make sure this was happening properly, we had our programmer and the   
   programmer up north connected by a telephone handset, just to make sure   
   it was going correctly.   
   So Charlie typed the "L" and said "You get the 'L'?"   
   Bill said, "Yup, got the L."   
   Typed 'O'. "You get the 'O'?"   
   "Yup, got the 'O'."   
   Typed in the 'G' and crash! The SRI computer crashed.   
   So the first message ever on the internet was "LO", as in "lo and behold"   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)