[HN Gopher] The first email from space [video]
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The first email from space [video]
Author : world2vec
Score : 52 points
Date : 2024-02-06 23:27 UTC (1 days ago)
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| Brajeshwar wrote:
| "Hasta la vista, baby"
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasta_la_vista%2C_baby
| yabones wrote:
| It's incredibly funny that despite the sophisticated high-
| bandwidth data channels available to them, they ended up using a
| half-duplex modem connection to a custom ground station. It still
| feels like our world is full of hacks like that, maybe more than
| ever -- "stupid", and shouldn't work, but _do_.
| HPsquared wrote:
| I wonder if Starlink is accessible from the ISS using a stock
| modem. Probably not.
|
| Edit: maybe they could use the laser links?
| soneil wrote:
| A bit of a tangent, but I'm surprised to hear that Clinton was
| the first sitting president to send an email, in 1998. The Queen
| sent her first in 1976, which is quite a gap.
| ghaff wrote:
| '76 is really early. I'd be curious about the circumstances.
| [Apparently a photo op at a military research base.] Ray
| Tomlinson at BBN was credited with sending the first email in
| 1971 and, other than a few chat messages, I wasn't sending
| email until a fair bit later.
|
| National Archives say that Bill Clinton had a public-facing
| email address in 1993 and that was probably around the time
| that (some) normal people were starting to get addresses and
| sending email.
| cogman10 wrote:
| '98, on the other hand seems really late for sending an
| email. America was online at that point. In fact, in '98 the
| concept of email was so ubiquitous that we got "You've got
| mail" [1] as a movie.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ve_Got_Mail
| ghaff wrote:
| A lot of people had AOL dialup. I probably had (personal)
| broadband by then but not by more than a year or two.
|
| In any case I'm not sure whatever photo-ops heads of state
| choose to do says a lot beyond something some advisor
| pitched to them.
| cogman10 wrote:
| > In any case I'm not sure whatever photo-ops heads of
| state choose to do says a lot beyond something some
| advisor pitched to them.
|
| IDK about the 76 email by the queen, but by the time the
| 90's rolled around I would have thought that electronic
| communications would have been pretty advantageous.
| Having everything printed out and hand delivered just
| seems like a waste of time. Particularly for something as
| large as the executive branch where there are so many
| secretaries that need to communicate.
|
| Heck, DHS was primarily pitched and founded because of
| the 9/11 communication breakdown. I have to wonder how
| much of that was due to the fact that communications were
| papers flying around everywhere.
| ghaff wrote:
| In the early 90s--and even into the mid--at a _computer
| hardware company_ there were still execs who had their
| admins take care of all that stuff. There was a big
| mindset to break, probably mostly with a new generation,
| for many senior people in the computer industry. (To be
| clear, most people used email all the time--initially
| internal and then external as well over time.)
| hx8 wrote:
| President of The United States has a reputation of being a low-
| tech job. The level of security around him means all electronic
| devices he uses have gone through the wringer of best in class
| "cyber security."
|
| While '98 feels a bit late Clinton was in office between
| '93-'00. This sounds like the timeframe e-mail became a
| critical part of daily life.
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