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Happy birthday, ARPANET!

"At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute."

https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And thus, the age of easier disinformation was born.

[–] stefan@stefanbohacek.online 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world Ahh, it's not all bad though. Look at us, talking and connecting!

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's fair. A few decades ago this wasn't possible.

[–] stefan@stefanbohacek.online 3 points 9 months ago

@NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world There you go!

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

No, that was 1989, when the net started to get flooded by idiots.

[–] larsbrinkhoff@mastodon.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online Arpanet will return, mark my 36-bit words.

[–] stefan@stefanbohacek.online 1 points 9 months ago

The actual first message that was sent that day was just "LO", first two letters of the word "LOGIN", when the system crashed.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241028-the-failure-that-started-the-internet

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