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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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And thus, the age of easier disinformation was born.
@[email protected] 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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No, that was 1989, when the net started to get flooded by idiots.
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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