[ih] RIP ​ARPANET user ​Elizabeth R.

[christian de larrinaga]

What a great idea of Bob Kahn's to remind HMQ of the linkage. Do you
recall if she mentioned anything about that email and Peter?

C

vinton cerf via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> writes:

> 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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