This day in history. Tech edition

[maria.jacob]

@lollapalooza same

[Nared]

October 28 1969

The internet was born

The very first computer-computer link was established. It was part of ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

In 1966, Bob Taylor convinced Charles Herzfeld (who was the director of the Advanced Research Projects Administration, or ARPA) to fund a network project. Three years later, two computers spoke to each other for the first time. The two computers were an SDS Sigma 7 and an SDS 940. The message was “login”. The first attempt to do this resulted in a computer crash — only the first two letters went through.

In 2017, there were 3.6 billion people using the Internet, about half the people on Earth. This is about the same proportion as those who have access to running water.

[Felixa Lee]

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[Nared]

October 30th, 2000

Today the last remaining Multics installation is shut down at the Canadian Department of National Defense in Halifax. Although the time-sharing operating system was not a huge commercial success, it had a significant impact on the industry

[Felixa Lee]

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[Felixa Lee]

@jaredmlg its me Felix, this is an emergency, go to chat perms and join i so u can chat, pick.friggin.up.

[Nared]

i can't. its giving me the same error

[A Former User]

@jaredmlg Thats weird i was already added to the group when i found out about it

[A Former User]

@jaredmlg maybe try clicking on @chat-perms, click join. the chat option should show up. if it doesnt, reload or re login maybe

[lollapalooza]

@AwesomeKoala89 you need to get accepted for it first