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scott
surfer at mauigateway.com
Fri Oct 22 01:01:51 UTC 2021
This didn't go through. Trying again.
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. :)
>
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