Forty-one years ago today, a pair of computer scientists tried to send the world’s first computer-to-computer message via the internet. The message was to be the word “log.” Their connection crashed before they got to “g.” [BoingBoing, CR4, image via]
mbryant
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 9:06 AMThey tried again an hour later, and got the full word out. Hence, the first three characters sent were LOL.