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