[ih] RIP ​ARPANET user ​Elizabeth R.

[vinton cerf]

Bob Kahn presented a photo of this event to Queen Elizabeth in 2013 upon
the occasion of his receipt of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
(along with Louis Pouzin, Marc Andreessen, Tim Berners-Lee, and me).

v


On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 5:59 AM Joly MacFie via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/08/queen_elizabeth_dies/
>
> On March 26, 1976, the Queen became one of the first heads of state to use
> email. The late Peter Kirstein pioneered Britain's adoption of TCP/IP and
> Her Majesty was invited to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment to
> view the first introduction of the ARPANET network to the UK.
>
> Given the username HME2 (Her Majesty, Elizabeth II) by Kirstein, she logged
> in and sent an email with the signature Elizabeth R. Kirstein recalled that
> the text was prewritten and – given the topic – that's understandable,
> though it was a historic step.
>
> "This message to all ARPANET users announces the availability on ARPANET of
> the Coral 66 compiler provided by the GEC 4080 computer at the Royal
> Signals and Radar Establishment, Malvern, England," it read. "Coral 66 is
> the standard real-time high level language adopted by the Ministry of
> Defence. https://www.wired.com/2012/12/queen-and-the-internet/
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