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Craigslist gets beamed into space
By Ker Than
Special to SPACE.com <http://space.com/>
Thursday, March 24, 2005 Posted: 5:33 PM EST (2233 GMT)
(SPACE.com) -- Aliens will be glad to know that if ever they need to find an apartment here on Earth, someone has got them covered.
On March 11, a company called Deep Space Communications Network beamed the first commercial transmission of a Web site into space.
The message? Over one hundred thousand separate postings from craigslist.org, the popular community Web site that includes classified listings for jobs, housing and other goods. The transmission included a date and time stamp, as well as an audio track identifying the message as originating from Earth.
"It's very fitting that the first
transmission into space is by a community Web site like craiglist because it represents a wide cross section of society," said Jim Lewis, vice president of Deep Space Communications Network.
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