How long has it been that I've been online? More than a decade?
It's not something I usually think about, but I'm prompted to do so this week, because I recently came across an announcement about a commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the Internet. On Oct. 29, Internet pioneers will gather at UCLA to celebrate the first host-to-host message, sent from UCLA to Stanford.
These places were the first nodes in the network known as ARPANET (forerunner to the Internet).
The researchers at UCLA were trying to login to the Stanford computer. They were supposed to send the letters "log", which would then be completed by the Stanford computer. The latter was supposed to add the letters "in".
It didn't quite turn out that way.
The folks in Northern and Southern California talked to each other by telephone, during the test.
When the UCLA team sent the first letter, "L", they got feedback from Stanford that it had been received.
The sending of "O" worked fine.
But, when they sent the third letter, "G", up north, the Stanford computer crashed.
(And that is how the term, "G-spot" came into being -- no, just kidding.)
BTW, the Internet pioneers at the celebration will include the guys who developed the idea of packet switching (Leonard Kleinrock), pushed the development of ARPANET (Lawrence Roberts), and invented TCP/IP (Robt. Kahn and Vinton Cerf).
[Hey! They forgot Al Gore...] :-)
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Howdy.
Haven't posted in a while.
I've been busy trying to get my car fixed. It's been suffering from things like a broken vent window and engine warning light. Also need to get the rotors turned again, so that my brakes stop vibrating when I apply them.
Went to a couple screenings of the DC APA Film Festival. (I helped to found the predecessor 23 years ago. -- My, how time has flown.)
Went to gigs in DC (Yosuke Yamashita and Chang Cheng Yue) and Baltimore (High Zero and IQU).
October is a busy month...
(Still trying to decide how to vote... for and against...)