When Samuel Morse demonstrated the telegraph, he famously tapped out a line from the Bible: "What hath God wrought?"
When Alexander Graham Bell tested his telephone, he called his assistant: "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
When T.J. Creamer sent the first direct upload from space to the Web this morning, it looked like this:
"Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station -- the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your ?s"
Yes, it was the first live tweet from orbit. It may surprise you to know that space station astronauts -- who go around the world once every 91 minutes -- have not had the ability to surf the World Wide Web until now. They could send and receive digital packets -- e-mail -- but they didn't carry the software for web access until station crew member Timothy J. (T.J.) Creamer got to work on it.He's been orbiting with four crew mates since Dec. 20 and is due home in May.
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