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A Black Falcon

31st October 2009, 12:06 AM
Of the first time two computers talked to eachother, specifically. A momentous anniversary indeed...

And what was that history-making first message?

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They were trying to send 'log', as in to log in, but one of the two computers crashed before they could type the third letter. :D Ah, computers... Lol

An interesting interview with one of the people involved: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/29/klein...index.html

Weltall

2nd November 2009, 12:08 PM
It also marked the 80th anniversary of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, and the beginning of the Great Depression.

Perhaps the computer crash was a tribute to that event?

A Black Falcon

2nd November 2009, 2:13 PM
Hah, maybe... :)
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