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   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.   
      
      
   --   
   Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly   
   in England until 1987.   
      
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