The actual first message that was sent that day was just “LO”, first two letters of the word “LOGIN”, when the system crashed.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241028-the-failure-that-started-the-internet

#arpanet #internet #history #OTD #OnThisDay #technology

@[email protected] There you go!

@[email protected] Ahh, it’s not all bad though. Look at us, talking and connecting!

@[email protected] Interesting thought for sure!

@[email protected] Very relevant! And really makes you appreciate the fediverse!

"Over the course of five years, we tried dozens of revenue models […] We’d run as a subscription service! Take a share of revenue […] bundle a magazine with textbook publishers! Sell T-shirts and other branded merch!

[…]

At the end of the day, the business model that got us funded was advertising."

https://web.archive.org/web/20140830021729/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin/376041

#FirstBannerAd #ads #history #technology #internet #TheWeb #InternetHistory

For comparison: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113364384899111338

@SpaceLifeForm To be fair, they did just raise $15 million in funding (read: company debt), so they kind of have to start thinking about that.

This is what I love about the fediverse, we figure out the money part as we go.

Yes, sadly, some servers don’t make it, but it’s great to see that so many here are willing to stick around in the long run.

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/111318759454753780

I wonder when we’ll finally start seeing those ads. https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/110254051709008742

Hmm, is this the oldest archived page? (According to the Wikipedia article.)

https://web.archive.org/web/19961113160346/http://www.pepsico.com/

Anyway.

The https://archive.org/donate/ currently redirects to their PayPal, as the servers seem to be down again.

@[email protected] Yes, thank you for sharing!

@[email protected] Okay, I did not expect that.

I would suggest blocking accounts that do that, if that’s an option for you, it’s not really a fault of the people whose post are being reposted to where you can see them.

Also, I am still puzzled by the original response suggesting that a quote from a book is a “click bait headline”. Definitely not intended that way.

I’ll reply here without tagging you, I was not aware of you having blocked me, or that Lemmy does not respect blocks.

First, I don’t know too much about how Lemmy works, clearly, I primarily use Mastodon myself, and I did not go out of my way to have my post show up at that link. It looks like this was reposted by a bot because of the “history” hashtag that I used?

@givesomefucks I’m sorry, would you mind elaborating?

(Just to add in case you do: Sorry for upsetting you, and I wish you a pleasant rest of your Saturday!)

Also published on this day, but in 1953, the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, inspired by the book burnings in Nazi Germany.

“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressions.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451

#Fahrenheit451 #BookBans #books #bookstodon #literature #history #dystopia #OTD

Aftermath: “While she was not arrested, the Speaker of the House of Commons imposed a sanction excluding her from the House for two years”

She “arranged to be taken around the parliament buildings […] escaped from her escort, […] burst into the main chamber of the House of Commons where a debate was in progress on a bill regarding various issues related to children” and shouted things along the lines of: “Drop your talk about the children’s bill and give us votes for women!”

Good for her!

Also, FYI, it rhymes with “vogue”.

(Not the actual pronunciation, but Bob Moog prefers the sound.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDN-y0QQ7cs

#moog

@[email protected] Yeah, I knew a bit about Ford’s antisemitism, but this story is, well, maybe not a new low, but certainly something.