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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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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month 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.world 10 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 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago