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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
Fun little fact I didn't see in any of the Queen obits I read...
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- book excerpt: "familiar Email characteristics: a "to" line, a "from" line, and the ability to forward messages to another user. As the ARPANET grew, it began to introduce electronic mail to a wider audience. In 1976, Queen Elizabeth II christened the ARPANET's first node in Great Britain by sending an Email on the network. (Her username: HME2.) In 1978 an overeager computer-company marketer won the dubious honor of sending the first piece of commercial spam, blanketing ARPANET users' Email inboxes with a note promoting a new model. By" (remote)
