[TUHS] First ARPAnet transmission

Michael Kjörling michael at kjorling.se
Mon Oct 29 17:16:52 AEST 2018


On 29 Oct 2018 13:10 +1100, from grog at lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey):
> On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 12:05:06 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> At 22:30 (but which timezone?) on this day in 1969 the first packet got as
>> far as "lo" (for "login") then crashed on the "g".
> 
> The time zone was Pacific Time.  For me it happened on the following
> day, coincidentally the day I first interacted with a computer.

So 1969-10-30 05:30 UTC?

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