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From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: First text message sent (3/12/1992)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 19:01:06 +0100
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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.