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Re:July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (2013) by ArkyBeagle on Sunday July 20, 2014 @11:15PM (#8062343)
Because there was no text chat then. BBN was contracted to build the first four IMP machines in 1969.
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Re:July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (2013) by dm2 on Sunday July 20, 2014 @11:17PM (#8062347)
We put someone on the moon before we invented text-chat? Wow.
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Re:July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (2013) by krisgee on Sunday July 20, 2014 @11:25PM (#8062368)
We put men on the moon before we invented the digital watch.
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Re:July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (2013) by hudibras on Monday July 21, 2014 @02:41AM (#8062738)
We put men on the moon before we put wheels on suitcases.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/business/05road.html

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Re:July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (2013) by thefreeman on Sunday July 20, 2014 @11:27PM (#8062373)
Seeing as the computers were spitting error numbers instead of error messages, I am guessing that wasn't an option at that time with the hardware they had.
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