>>> Frank Masingill on Alive? 
 WE> So what is the First Message? -)  Why wasn't it posted? By now it's too
 WE> late for it to be the first message anyway.
 FM> The first message was the "Letter to Garcia" and it wasn't posted
 FM> immediately because the writer was awaiting the invention of
 FM> computers.  When it was finally sent it was cast forth by a Tandy 1000
 FM> with a 300 baud modem and is still in transmission!!
What?  You mean the First Message wasn't a slap on the butt of welcome to 
wonderful world of reality?
Who's Garcia?  Gosh, don't you think that somebody else could have uploaded 
it by now?  Like those generation star ships that were so slow that they were 
overtaken by later interstellar flights?
So you kept a phone line connected all this time without any interruption nor 
any interruption to the computer's power or performance.
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