PC Pro blog » gsm http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs Blogging in the real world Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:54:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Bouncing messages off the moon http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/30/bouncing-messages-off-the-moon/ http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/06/30/bouncing-messages-off-the-moon/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:48:52 +0000 Matthew Sparkes http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=6088 Radio nerds celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landings this week by bouncing radio waves off the moon. It’s a five second round-trip, even for a radio wave, so the conversations were rather stilted. But what an interesting tribute it was.

Will other technological milestones be celebrated in similar ways, I wonder?

Will the 40th anniversary of the internet’s creation be honoured by people bouncing emails off of Tim Berners-Lee’s laptop? Will we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the GSM network by routing SMS messages through Friedhelm Hillebrand’s mobile?

No, probably not.

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