Re: First text message sent (3/12/1992)

 Ar an triú lá de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Ross Clark:

 > [...] "All we wanted to do was log in from our computer to a computer 400
 > miles to the north up at Stanford Research Institute.
 > To log in, you have to type "L O G" and that machine was smart enough to
 > type the "I N".
 > To make sure this was happening properly, we had our programmer and the
 > programmer up north connected by a telephone handset, just to make sure it
 > was going correctly.
 > So Charlie typed the "L" and said "You get the 'L'?"
 > Bill said, "Yup, got the L."
 > Typed 'O'. "You get the 'O'?"
 > "Yup, got the 'O'."
 > Typed in the 'G' and crash! The SRI computer crashed.
 > So the first message ever on the internet was "LO", as in "lo and behold"

Reminds me of ‘ghrelin’, a hormone of the gastrointestinal tract, asserted to
be from Proto-Indo-European “gʰreh₁”, ‘to grow’, but suspiciously similar to
the abbreviation ‘Growth Hormone RELeasing’ peptide, its function.

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