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The 20th Anniversary of the Internet
Ross Finlayson writes "In a message posted to the IETF general mailing list, Bob Braden reminds us that, on January 1st, 2003, 20 years will have passed since "the most logical date of origin of the Internet [...] when the ARPANET officially switched from the NCP protocol to TCP/IP". And the rest is history..."
as the inventor of the internet, Al Gore is celebrating by not running for President.
I just can't resist. Remember what you all need to sing at midnight in your respective time zone...
Should older packets become dumped
and never brought online,
Let newer packets take their place
on all our T-1 lines!
(I wonder if my older karma will be forgotten?)
Bruce Lane, KC7GR,
Blue Feather Technologies
Rather conveniently, only those geeky enough to celebrate this anniversary get to learn this news, since everyone else is out on the biggest party night of the year.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY INTERNET!!
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The day after the Internet was born is also a red letter date in the online world. It brought with it the following historical firsts:
The First Blog.
The First Troll
The Basic Concept of goatse.cx was allowed to begin forming.
A Synapse in Rob Malda's head fired, marking the beginnings of what would become Slashdot.
The First Pirate dipped his toe into brave new waters.
The First Internet Download Queen, Billie Jean King, was crowned.
The Fires of Mount St. Helens rumbled in faraway Washington, signaling the rise of the Dark Lord Gates and the writing of the One OS
Al Gore said that the second day of his greatest invention was going very well.
The birth of the first newsgroup, alt.news.cultureclub (hey, it was the 80's!)
The First "Stephen King, Dead at 35" Post
One year later, George Orwell, You Do The Math
Happy New Year, everyone. May your night be moderated +1(Kickass)
Blog Prophyts - Right On, Man
So, the internet left NCP 20 years ago... How long until Novell figures it out?
Repeat after me... It's a Joke, It's a Joke, It's a Joke. And when you tell me about factual inaccuracies, guess what I'm going to tell you?
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
... until you're old enough to drink, Internet!
Until then, I guess you have to stick to what you're best at: porn and gambling.
Happy Birthday Internet!
-Michael
Threshold RPG
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and there was no Spam.
And the Spirit of God moved slowly through modems.
And God said, Let there be speed: and there was speed.
And God saw the speed, that it was good: and God divided the slow from the fast.
And God called the speed true Broadband Internet, and the slow he called AOL.
And the evening and the morning were the first day.
(apologies)
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
Gopher? Luxury!! Aye, when I was a lad we used to dream of the day we'd 'ave gopher. I'd 'ave to get oop at 4am, stick an ethernet cable oop me nose and sniff in binary just to get me email.
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