Comments on: Important day in history! http://boingboing.net/2010/10/29/important-day-in-his.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Felton / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2010/10/29/important-day-in-his.html#comment-923908 Felton / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923908 Did they try turning it off and on again? Did they try turning it off and on again?

]]> By: CANTFIGHTTHEDITE http://boingboing.net/2010/10/29/important-day-in-his.html#comment-923964 CANTFIGHTTHEDITE Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923964 Voicemail message: "Yeah, I sent you a message through arpanet, did you read it yet? Just checking, uhhhh... call me back to let me know you read it, okay? Alright, talk to you later, umm, bye." So it was also the first voicemail message left to see if someone had checked their email yet. Voicemail message:

“Yeah, I sent you a message through arpanet, did you read it yet? Just checking, uhhhh… call me back to let me know you read it, okay? Alright, talk to you later, umm, bye.”

So it was also the first voicemail message left to see if someone had checked their email yet.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/29/important-day-in-his.html#comment-925510 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-925510 Funny, and Windows 3.0 was sill 25 years away..... Funny, and Windows 3.0 was sill 25 years away…..

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/29/important-day-in-his.html#comment-924533 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924533 Thus began the longstanding history of blaming the ISP for a botched e-mail. Thus began the longstanding history of blaming the ISP for a botched e-mail.

]]> By: eltoozero http://boingboing.net/2010/10/29/important-day-in-his.html#comment-924302 eltoozero Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924302 This happened because they were sending the 'login' command and the receiving system's autocomplete mechanism tried to fire back 'gin' after the sender typed 'log'. The test was a success, and was one step on the path of getting the growing number of diverse computer systems inter-communicating. It's a myth that The Internet was created to withstand nuclear attack, the real story is someone at the pentagon wondered why he needed individual terminals in his office to speak to each different mainframe. "Where Wizard's Stay Up Late", a great book that tells the whole story, includes firsthand accounts of the events in this article. This happened because they were sending the ‘login’ command and the receiving system’s autocomplete mechanism tried to fire back ‘gin’ after the sender typed ‘log’. The test was a success, and was one step on the path of getting the growing number of diverse computer systems inter-communicating.

It’s a myth that The Internet was created to withstand nuclear attack, the real story is someone at the pentagon wondered why he needed individual terminals in his office to speak to each different mainframe.

“Where Wizard’s Stay Up Late”, a great book that tells the whole story, includes firsthand accounts of the events in this article.

]]> By: AdrenalineSleep http://boingboing.net/2010/10/29/important-day-in-his.html#comment-923877 AdrenalineSleep Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923877 LO LO

]]> By: AdrenalineSleep http://boingboing.net/2010/10/29/important-day-in-his.html#comment-923878 AdrenalineSleep Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923878 ~reboot~ .......L ~reboot~

…….L

]]> By: dystopianforhire http://boingboing.net/2010/10/29/important-day-in-his.html#comment-923887 dystopianforhire Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923887 I see what you did there. I wonder what spam looked like in 1969? I see what you did there.

I wonder what spam looked like in 1969?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/29/important-day-in-his.html#comment-924145 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-924145 Lo, and behold. Lo, and behold.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/29/important-day-in-his.html#comment-923901 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923901 Even back then AT&T's network sucked. Even back then AT&T’s network sucked.

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