Tuesday, December 25, 2012
The Queen and the email in 1976
The date was March 26, 1976, and the ARPANET — the computer network that eventually morphed into the internet — had just come to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, a telecommunications research center in Malvern, England. The Queen was on hand to christen the connection, and in the process, she became one of the first heads of state to send an e-mail.
Coral 66 is the standard real-time high level language adopted by the Ministry of Defence.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Yes, the Queen used email in 1976, and you ? Browsing at that time was of course virtually unknown. But, what the hell is below in the right corner