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Paddy replied

29 October 2012, 17:41
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.
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NickFitz started a topic Happy Birthday ARPANET!

29 October 2012, 15:16
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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