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NASA beams home cat video from 19 million miles away
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As is tradition. The first image transferred over the internet-precursor was also a cat picture.
Eventually we will attain our ultimate goal of transferring cats
Catapults already exist.
You have to keep the image intact though.
Hah, that's interesting. I tried looking up to see if that's true, but I'm not finding any reliable sources, only sites and articles talking about the first message sent on ARPANET.
I imagine the first image file would've come well after the first text transmission, and would've required the development of a binary file transfer protocol. Maybe they're talking about XMODEM and the BBS era, before those BBSes were eventually networked onto the internet.