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A Brief History of the Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-you-can't-be-funny,-be-brief dept.

Ant writes "'Many young people around the world use the internet every day, and yet they have no memory of the history that led to the creation of the global network. Many have no understanding of how or why the internet has developed. As part of out continuing efforts to combat ignorance around the world, The Lemon is proud to present this timeline...'"

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  1. *BSD IS DYING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

  2. Not about the history of the internet.. by eadz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... but about the uncertain future
    Microsoft licenses SCO Unix (code + patents)

  3. Shoot them in the head by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The following was written by a bunch of loser god fearing retards, to whom no self-confidence has been bestowed upon. They go in fear and hide in their rooms and cry. How is Porn Harmful?

    "I don't need studies and statistics to tell me that there is a relationship between pornography and real violence against women. My body remembers." -- Woman's testimony, 1983.* "The relationship between particularly sexually violent images in the media and subsequent aggression...is much stronger statistically than the relationship between smoking and lung cancer." -- Edward Donnerstein, 1983.* Men who view pornography do not limit the objectification to the woman on the screen/magazine, as though that wasn't bad enough. They take the image and apply it to all women: your sister, mother, wife, girlfriend, etc. Soon, the object becomes a woman at the office, a co-worker, friend, or neighbor. The object becomes you or someone you love. Pornography's influence is not limited to where it is presented. Those who use it are changed by it. It becomes acceptable in their minds for them to treat all women in the way they see the women in the pornography. It becomes "okay" for them to view women as sexual objects. When men treat women as sexual objects, they do not relate to them on a human to human level. They begin to think it is all right for them to say things to them they would never say to a fellow human being. The respect, the camaraderie is lost. It is not "okay" for men to view women as sexual objects. Pornography is not "okay". It has begun to proliferate our media, our magazines, our internet, our television. What abour our children? They are seeing this too. Do we really want our children growing up in a world like this? How do you think the children would feel to know how men are viewing their mothers? Their teachers? Their friends? Is this really how we want our world, folks? It is time for us to take responsibility for our actions - for what we have allowed to happen in this world. It is time for us to take a stand to change it. We cannot stand idly by and watch things get worse and worse. Pornography is hurting us, and it is hurting our children. * Taken from Pornography: Evidence of Harm by Diana Russell

  4. I'll save everyone some time.... by canning · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No need to read the article, I invented the Internet. Of course at that time I called it the intraweb but let's not concern ourselves with minor details.

    --
    I love the smell of Karma in the morning
  5. Missing a few points... by Bish.dk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    200X : ?????
    200X + 1 : Profit!!!

  6. Re:The history of Usenet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    don't deny it. you love it when someone performs cunnilingus on your warm, delicious pussy.

  7. Anonymous Coward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hOrSe CoCk

  8. lots of people need more history by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I bet most people don't remember the reason that former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Niell was fired for. He had revised OMB figures on the debt as the Treasury usually does, by amortizing the future costs of health care and pensions for activated military. The last time that happened, with the Afganistan conflict, the budget deficit jumped from about 100 billion to over 500 billion. A lot more people were mobilized in Iraq. However, the new Treasury Secretary will be legally obligated to do the same kind of amortization, which will put the U.S. debt way past the "irresponsible" mark which it is brushing up against. The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee will probably not react favorably to the news, although they can keep interest rates low as long as Europe and Japan don't start borrowing, which they may or may not. Europe owes Bush no big favors at the moment. The Japanese citizenry would prefer economic development loans while interest rates are still low.

    Moreover, I bet most people don't remember David Stockman. The following paragraph is from Holly Sklar, co-author of the book, "Raise The Floor: Wages and Policies That Work For All of Us."

    If you want to stimulate unemployment, deficits and inequality, keep cutting taxes. More than 2 million jobs have been lost on President Bush's watch. Like the 2001 tax swindle, the 2003 tax cuts will hurt the economy, not help it. The Bush team wants to remake the tax system for the wealthy, increasingly exempting money from investments while taxing paychecks. They want a big deficit, as Reaganites did, to strangle public services they don't like. In the words of Reagan budget director David Stockman, 'Greed came to the forefront. The hogs were really feeding.'

    I wonder how many people remember that Bush refused to tell anyone about his DUI conviction until a reporter found out. I'll bet he wishes that everyone would just forget about all those Texas election registration that he was legally required to complete, where he apparently left the questions asking "have you ever been convicted of a criminal offense?" blank and then signed a declaration that the form was complete to the best of his knowledge under penalties of perjury. How long is the statute of limitations for perjury in Texas, anyway?

  9. Re:Al Gore did not invent the internet. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When do we get mobile slashdot?
    http://mobile.slashdot.org/
    OR
    http:/ /slashdot.org/wml/

    Lots of people do have wireless internet. (Just being able to view the headlines would be nice.)

  10. Re:Al Gore did not invent the internet. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    check it out, MSFT is licensing Unix IP from SCO: http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1007528.html

  11. I like it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think this should replace all other trolls. Get rid of all the bsd is dying, soviet russia, even first post - just plain horse cock.

    HORSE COCK

    Post it early, post it often.

  12. Go Power Rangers, Go Ninja Storm, Let's Go! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hurricanger is about ninjas. There is a first team of red, blue and yellow known as the Hurricanger and the second team that are the Goraijer made up of Kabuta Raijer and Kuwagata Raijer. The two teams are from different ninja schools. The mecha are three animals and two insects. Throughout the first period of the show the enemy of the Hurricanger will create the Goraijer out of two ninjas who are from the Hurricanger's rival school. They are a team who are equal in strength with the Hurricanger. After Goraijer is beaten, they get over they're differences and the two become Hurricanger.

    In this series, there is robot ninjas and organic monsters that our heroes face. The robots are destroyed by the main weapon then the "Copy Giant" is sent to duplicate the image of the fallen machine. When an organic monster is destroyed, it is rebuilt by scroll sent down by Windenu's Bazooka.

    Note: The Goriajer finally are credited in the opening credits in Episode 24. Starting with episode 35, they added teasers to the show, before the opening credits. A teaser is a small scene of the episode lasting two minutes and sometimes with catch up material. The previews are shown after one commercial instead of instantly after the credits like before. Also, clips of the next episode of even shown during the mention of sponsors (like Bandai). Before they only used stock footage. Clips of the next episode is also shown with the mention of the Tv-Asahi website instead of the Hurricangers with their umbrellas like before.

    The following were not in Hurricanger:
    Lothor
    Wind Ranger's Tsunami Cycles (based on Goraijer's Bari Thunders)
    Mobile Command Center