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NASA beams home cat video from 19 million miles away
(bigthink.com)
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As is tradition. The first image transferred over the internet-precursor was also a cat picture.
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.
Eventually we will attain our ultimate goal of transferring cats
Catapults already exist.
You have to keep the image intact though.
Work continues on the Trebuchat.