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Ground Zero of ARPANet, Grandfather of the Internet (OSM's Platform)

apm-wa 于 2017年十二月23日 以 English 发布 最后一次更新于2019年五月25日。

I spent a couple of weeks in Rosslyn, Virginia, on vacation, and stumbled across a sign identifying the site of the building where the U.S. Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) invented the network and first attendant protocols, ARPANet, that are today known as the Internet. I photographed the sign and uploaded it to Mapillary, which for some reason has placed it incorrectly (I’m trying to move it to the correct location but Mapillary advises it “may take some time.”)

ARPANet sign on SE corner of North Oak Street and Clarendon Boulevard in Arlington, Virginia

Can anybody tell me what the binary code on the back of the sign means?

Binary code on back of ARPANet sign

位置: North Highland, Courthouse, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, 22209, United States
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iandees2017年12月23日 18:00 的评论

The binary translates to ARPANET.

macAlba2017年12月23日 19:55 的评论

It’s hexadecimal in binary form.

Break the bits into bunches of 8:

01000001 01010010 01010000 01000001 01001110 01000101 01010100

Break each byte into two 4-bit parts (nibbles), then each nibble into decimal.

01000001 = 0100 0001 = 4 1 = 41

Look up the decimal in a hexadecimal table. eg https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/hex-to-ascii.html

The resulting word is “ARPANET”.

macAlba2017年12月23日 19:57 的评论

It’s hexadecimal in binary form.

Break the bits into bunches of 8:

01000001 01010010 01010000 01000001 01001110 01000101 01010100

Break each byte into two 4-bit parts (nibbles), then each nibble into decimal.

01000001 = 0100 0001 = 4 1 = 41

Look up the decimal in a hexadecimal table. eg https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/hex-to-ascii.html

The resulting word is “ARPANET”.

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