For the first time, NASA has used lasers to send data from deep space to Earth — and the data for the historic demonstration was a cat video.

Finally, the singularity has happened.

  • @GamingChairModelEnglish
    1•4 hours ago

    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.