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  • List in Space: Calling the Cosmos Gets Commercial

    03/23/2005 5:19:16 PM PST · by KevinDavis · 8 replies · 212+ views
    space.com ^ | 03/23/05 | Ker Than
    Aliens will be glad to know that if ever they need to find an apartment here on Earth, someone has got them covered. On March 11th at 6:30pm, a company called Deep Space Communications Network beamed the first commercial transmission of a website into space. The message? Over one hundred thousand separate postings from craigslist.com, the popular community website 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. “It's very fitting that the first [commercial] transmission into space...