Happy Birthday, Email!

frau kaleun · 10-29-10, 12:13 PM

You are 41 years young today!

October 29, 1969: “Lo”: The First Computer-to-Computer Message

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On this day in engineering history, the first computer-to-computer message was sent when SDS Sigma 7 Host computer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) transmitted a one-word message to an SDS 940 Host computer at the Stanford Research Institute (SRS). The transmission medium, the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency network (ARPANET), was the world's first packet-switching network and the precursor to the modern Internet.

On October 29, 1969 at 10:30 PM, UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock and graduate student Charley Klein tried to send a message with the word "log" to SRI's Augmentation Research Center. Although programmers at SRI received the letters "lo", the ARPANET connection crashed before the "g" arrived. A second attempt at sending the word "log" was successful.

"As of now," Kleinrock said at the time, "computer networks are still in their infancy. But as they grow up and become more sophisticated, we will probably see the spread of 'computer utilities' which, like present electric and telephone utilities, will service individual homes and offices across the country."

In conclusion, holy crap I'm older than email.

FIREWALL · 10-29-10, 12:20 PM

Your only as old as you feel.

Except after a workout.

Sailor Steve · 10-29-10, 12:22 PM

I had no clue email was that old.

SteamWake · 10-29-10, 12:30 PM

Watson come here quickly I need you !

10-29-10, 12:35 PM

The third message was of course. "Make Penis Big"

frau kaleun · 10-29-10, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Rilder

The third message was of course. "Make Penis Big"

The fourth was an ASCII picture of Kleinrock's cat.

The fifth was when Klein typed "I C WUT U DID DERE" underneath the cat and sent it back.

SteamWake · 10-29-10, 12:55 PM

Email.. now literally avaiable to the ends of the earth !

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(AFP) - Climbers at the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, will now be able to make video calls and surf the internet on their cell phones, a Nepalese telecom group claimed Thursday.

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpps/news/int...29-fc_10354966

Platapus · 10-29-10, 01:12 PM

Just to pick a nit until it bleeds, would this not be considered more the first IM or dare I say the first tweet?

Submarine · 10-29-10, 01:14 PM

Who still uses email to communicate these days

I thought It was just for forum/website registration confirmations.

Weiss Pinguin · 10-29-10, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Rilder

The third message was of course. "Make Penis Big"

Jimbuna · 10-30-10, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Rilder

The third message was of course. "Make Penis Big"

The message obviously never got through

10-29-10, 12:20 PM	#2
FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	Your only as old as you feel. Except after a workout. __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ???

10-29-10, 12:22 PM	#3
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I had no clue email was that old. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

10-29-10, 12:30 PM	#4
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Watson come here quickly I need you ! __________________ Follow the progress of Mr. Mulligan : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147648

10-29-10, 01:12 PM	#8
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,360 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Just to pick a nit until it bleeds, would this not be considered more the first IM or dare I say the first tweet? __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

10-29-10, 01:14 PM	#9
Submarine Torpedoman Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: USA Posts: 117 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Who still uses email to communicate these days I thought It was just for forum/website registration confirmations. __________________

10-29-10, 12:35 PM	#5
Rilder Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	The third message was of course. "Make Penis Big"