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Happy Birthday ARPANET!

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    Happy Birthday ARPANET!

    It was 43 years ago today…
    "The first message on the ARPANET was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline, at 10:30pm on 29 October 1969, from Boelter Hall 3420. Kline transmitted from the university's SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the Stanford Research Institute's SDS 940 Host computer. The message text was the word login; the l and the o letters were transmitted, but the system then crashed. Hence, the literal first message over the ARPANET was lo."

    - ARPANET - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    The first digital message was sent by Paddy 44 years ago.

    It consisted of a single digit thrust in an upward direction at a fellow motorist.
    "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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