Deep Space Communications Network beamed the first commercial transmission of a Web site into space and it just happened to be the Craigslist website.
“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.
Lewis told SPACE.com that the company is currently in talks with craigslist to broadcast another transmission on to coincide with the planned Discovery launch, NASA’s first post-Columbia shuttle mission.”
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