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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And thus, the age of easier disinformation was born.
@NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world Ahh, it’s not all bad though. Look at us, talking and connecting!
That’s fair. A few decades ago this wasn’t possible.
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- brought to you by ARPANET
@NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world There you go!
No, that was 1989, when the net started to get flooded by idiots.
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online Arpanet will return, mark my 36-bit words.
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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