From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   On 5/12/2024 7:01 a.m., Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:   
   > On 2024-12-03 08:59:10 +0000, Ross Clark said:   
   >   
   >> 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"   
   >   
   > "Mr. Watson come here, I want you" is bit more impressive as a first   
   > message.   
   >   
      
   or "What hath God wrought" (first Morse-code message transmitted, 1844,   
   to officially open the Baltimore–Washington telegraph line)   
      
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