The baby panda was scanned at University College London and used
as a FAX test image for a demonstration of the DARPA Atlantic
SATNET Program and the first transatlantic Internet connection in 1978.
The computing system used for that demonstration was called the Fuzzball
. As it happened, this was also the first Internet multimedia
presentation and the first to use NTP in regular operation. The image
was widely copied and used for testing purpose throughout much of the
1980s.
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