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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: First text message sent (3/12/1992) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 19:01:06 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: <viq5d4$115ag$1@dont-email.me> References: <vimh99$3v95m$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:01:09 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1d6e29d90c5d00585a0a106e44079883"; logging-data="1086800"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19cFQe7CI1gX03fKEq8bFlsbWdtYSDJDIk=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:vQUeHN/ie/He9vn4es9ivSDq5dQ= Bytes: 2372 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.