Amaya Toman In today's window into the past, we first look at the end of the sixties and then the end of the eighties of the last century. In the first paragraph, we recall the day when the first ever message – or part of it – was sent in the ARPANET environment. Then we recall the launch of the Sega Mega Drive game console in Japan in 1988.
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First Message on the Net (1969)
On October 29, 1969, the first ever message was sent within the ARPANET network. It was authored by a student named Charley Kline, and the message was sent from a Honeywell computer. The recipient was a computer on the grounds of Stanford University, and the message was sent at 22.30:XNUMX p.m. California time. The wording of the message was simple - it contained only the term "login". Only the first two letters passed, then the connection failed.
Sega Mega Drive (1988)
On October 29, 1988, the sixteen-bit game console Sega Mega Drive was released in Japan. It was Sega's third console, and managed to sell a total of 3,58 million units in Japan. The Sega Mega Drive console was equipped with Motorola 68000 and Zilog Z80 processors, it was possible to connect a pair of controllers to it. During the nineties, various modules for the Mega Drive console gradually saw the light of day, in 1999 its sale in the United States was officially terminated.
