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

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

After a few years there was XPizza tool... Allowing MIT guys to order pizza from their workstation....