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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And thus, the age of easier disinformation was born.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Ahh, it's not all bad though. Look at us, talking and connecting!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

💩

- brought to you by ARPANET

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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