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On 10/21/2021 2:39 PM, scott wrote:
On 10/21/2021 8:52 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
It was “LO”, and Mr. Kline sent the packets, but you got it
essentially right.
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A picture of the sign explaining it and a picture of IMP 1 (seventeen
years ago next Friday, Oct 29) at the "35th Anniversary of the
Internet" at UCLA. That was 2004.
A slapped together web page (you'll have to rotate a couple of the
images) just for this email:
http://surfer.mauigateway.com/imp/imp.html I am over 6 feet tall, so
that "router" is giant! Even though it is not really a router, I like
to tell non-technical folks that it is one of the internet's first two
routers and then I send them to RFC 1. It takes a whole beer to
finish the story of the first thing transmitted was LO as in "lo and
behold...I exist".
Dr Kleinrock is the nicest person. I was embarrassed to ask for a
picture, which is why I look so funny (I am not a picture person, but
the nerd in me couldn't resist) and he could tell. He was the nicest
person to me to help me calm down. I'll not forget that.
scott
ps. I also am not a very good photographer, thus the light reflection
on the sign. :)
