The internet was born this week in 1969, and immediately glitched — only two of the five letters in the first computer-to-computer message were received
www.tomshardware.com
The receiving computer crashed as it couldn’t cope with the transmission speed of 5,000 characters per second.

The receiving computer crashed as it couldn’t cope with the transmission speed of 5,000 characters per second.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    23·
    3 days ago

    Missing detail: Once everything had restarted, the next attempt at sending “LOGIN” began, effectively making the first three character sent over a computer network “LOL”

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Wasn’t the first successful exchange the college kids in Boston buying weed from the kids in UCLA?

    It was definitely the first “online sale” but I’m not positive there wasn’t a couple of exchanges first.

    And the first webcam was to see if there was coffee

    Drugs fueled a lot of early internet