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Internet History In Pictures
prostoalex writes "Tired of reading black-on-white text on Internet history and its celebrities? The Faces in front of the Monitors features the Internet history in pictures. See the legendary BBN IMP team, Linus naked and drinking beer, Bill Gates and Paul Allen and other luminaries."
The server will be slashdotted because of the Linus picture IMO.
I've even seen a Pluribus IMP in operation.
Try as I might, I couldn't find a picture of Al Gore anywhere on that page.
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-- "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong." -- HL Mencken
should most definitely be the new linux logo ... drop the penguin.... we can get corporate sponsorship from heineken!
that allen was a ventriloquist!
--krahd
mod me up scottie!
I would expect more from a Torvalds..
-shakes head dishonorably-
nothing.can.stop.me.now
Isn't this old news? I saw this exact same page a few months ago. (probably closer to a year)
Come to think of it, this isn't even news... this is just pictures.
--Forest C. Adcock--
According to the article its...
"Pictures of people who have made a mark in any of the following: programmable computer systems, computer networks, the Internet or the security involved with those systems."
I don't recall Charles Babbage contributing to the internet.
http://www.mysticunderground.net/mirror/
Yeah; that's quite interesting really. The cleartype font system could be an interesting model to fix up linux desktop font issues too.
FAT is worthless though... everyone and their brother reversed engineered it already. NTFS or their new journaling FS on the other hand...
I haven't posted in so long, my sig is out of date.
What every geek wants for Xmas - a page full of Santa impersonators trying to fool the world into believing they're scientists.
Aah that's why he was ashamed... wait..nevermind.
I Kid! (Besides, I'm working tonight and I feel Christmas fat settling on me even as I type)
Is there an image of the drunk Steve Ballmer doing monkey dance naked??? It could be the next goatse.
"This page is 100K in size, please be patient while it loads"
Oh boy...
Well, I suppose that explains where "free as in beer" came from.
See! Free beer really will beat out free speech, not only did he stop coding for that beer, he gave up his shirt too!
And what's with the rainbow? hmmm...?
(posted from a powerbook, you zealots!)
Linus naked and drinking beer
Mmmm. Geek porn.
"No problem. I have the capacity to do infinite work so long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."-Dilbert
Mirror here
what have they EVER contributed to the net besides a series of operating systems that tend to do nothing but break standards and put massive security holes into the hands of the masses? It wasnt even until win 2000 that Uncle Bill had a decent tcp/ip stack, which was conviently borrowed / stolen (depending on your point of view) from free bsd.
Did m$ design any of the core net protocols? Dns? bgp? smtp? nntp? http?
I didnt think so, and their contributions to the net are little to nothing.
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
what exactly did he do/say against the net?
Put the weed down...
A blog like any other.
How about mad cow disease?
He pretended it didn't exist... until 1995 or so. Then he maded a new protocol NetBIOS, and other useless products like WINS... Abandoned them after 2001, when he found out the internet could exist inspite of MS.
.Net - in any case, I don't think .Net is born yet, let alone have a history.
I hope the internet isn't equated with
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If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
There are about 10 Billion people who did not do or say anything against the net, why dont we put their name here too. This loser was a netbeui advocate and had no clue what tcp/ip was, his book completely missed internet (It was added in next edition). And you name him luminary, you guys are bunch of losers
I just checked their website, and they didn't have my personal favorite...
Slashdot's first reaction to VMware
in the bottom right corner of the picture linked directly to the BBN IMP team, you will notice the dude looks like Red Foreman from that 70's show!
It kind of makes you wonder....
Some names (and photos) seem to be missing.
... and many many others. One more than a few occassions siblings were involved - Judy and Deborah Estrin, and the Lyons brothers come to mind.
I'd suggest John Romkey (author of PC/IP and one of the two original Internet toasters), Phil Karn (KA9Q), Louis Pouzin (I probably misspelled that), Don Davies. Mike St. Johns, Jake Feinler, Bob Braden, Milo, Jun Murai, Marshall Rose, Dave Mills, Dave Farber, Dave Clark, Jerry Saltzer, Noel Chiappa, Steve Casner, Dan Lynch, Radia Pearlman
Carl Malamud's 1992 book, "Exploring the Internet" has a lot of anecdotes and a few photos.
This is a really cool page, but I find it too bad that they left out the absolutely priceless mug shot of Bill Gates from when he was arrested in 1977 in New Mexico on a traffic offense.
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
I thought Slashdot was a bastion of free speech and beliver in freedom from censorship.
look at that. naked and drinking beer. huh.
WTPOUAWYHTTOTWPA
What's the point of using acronyms when you have to type out the whole phrase anyways?
Aren't they getting enough Sun ?
At least Rusty is trying to ... although I'm not sure the "open source is better code" idea works after a few beers.
Outside hacking with beer Outside hacking with beer againHmmmmmm, Coopers Beer. Thoroughly recommend the Pale (green label), Sparkling (red label) not too bad either. Fortunatley it's made where I come from (as does Rusty), so it is always fresh (can't speak for Rusty though, never met him - I did hear he got married a while back, so he may not be as fresh as he used to be.).
The Internet's nature is peer to peer - 20050301_cs_profs.pdf
That story may make the Slashdot frontpage more interesting, but according to the FAQ, Linus drinking beer makes it an omelette. I don't ask questions.
Auto-reply to ACs: "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect."
his name is pronounced "lee-nus"??
good thing he didn't grow up in an english speaking country
John T. Moy - OSPF Tony Li (BGP), Yakov Rehkter (BGP, MPLS)
The Internet's nature is peer to peer - 20050301_cs_profs.pdf
Slashdot has already covered this, it was spun as "Msft charges for FAT filesystem".
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
Not a looker in the bunch.
but a similar page found here www.unc.edu/courses/jomc050/ pioneers2g.html
.deviatefromtheabsolute.
in the sky, not "Sun" computers.
The Internet's nature is peer to peer - 20050301_cs_profs.pdf
A young Bill G. looks exactly like I imagined!
Lemme guess... this was on the eve of the 2.6.0 kernel release?
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
Tired of reading black-on-white text on Internet history and its celebrities?
Yeah, I just switched my web browser to white-on-black text.
hehe - good one.
Why did I immediately click on the picture of Linus drinking beer naked!!!!
I think I had a freudian click.
Come on, if you can get your picture in a ROM sold in thousands of computers, surely that deserves a mention?
Ctrl-Alt-Reset
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
Thats not what I call Christmas cheer.
Not a computer history.
Back in '98 or so, my best friend Brian politely informed me that his employer at the time was footing the bill for him to fly out to LinuxWorld Expo for 3 days. Not a bad gig. This made me a bit jealous, of course, so I made a bet with him. I bet him $50 that he could not come away from the conference with a photo of him and Linus having a beer. See, Bri is painfully shy. The odds of him running into (let alone introducing himself to!) Linus were pretty damn low, I figured. Hahaaa, an easy $50, I figured. Sucker!
So Bri gets on the plane and leaves....Days went by, and I heard nothing. Of course, this meant I could (in my infinite wisdom) run out and immediately spend $50, because he was obviously going to return from the conference empty-handed. Ch-ching, -$50.00...(I think it was on something totally meaningful, like a spool of CD-Rs.)
A couple days later, I get a call from Brian. Snickering like a friggin hyena.
(bbRRRrrrring....bbRRRrrrriing..) (*click*)
Me: Hello?
Brian: (...silence...) (*snicker*)
Me: Hellloooo.....?
Brian: (*snicker*)...Hey...(*snicker*)
Me: Oh! Hey man! How was your trip?
Brian: (..silence...)....*snicker*... Y..Y-YOU OWE ME FIFTY BUCKS!! (*snicker*) PAY UP, BITCH!!!!
Me:
Brain: OOOH YEAAH, PAY UP BITCH!!!
The consumate programmer that he is, Brian figures out a way to do it. That son of a bitch intentionally got drunk, and drunk enough to work up the courage to pull it off...He spots Linus, and immediately buys two big frothy glasses of beer. He walks over to him, and asks Linus if he can have his picture taken with him. Linus kindly obliges. "Here, hold this", Bri says, and hands one of the beers to Linus. Bri hands his camera off to a passer-by who snaps the photo. Picture perfect. There's Bri, theres Linus, and they're both holding a tall 'n frosty one. And it's a good picture. Son of a bitch!
Ch-ChinG! another -$50.00...
Bowie J. Poag
>Then he maded a new protocol NetBIOS *snip*
TOTAL BULLSHIT. Bill Gates had nothing to do with the creation of NetBIOS. The NetBIOS interface was developed by Sytec Inc. (now Hughes LAN Systems) for International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1983. The original version of Windows, released in November 1983, had no network support. Microsoft didn't even provide integrated network support in Windows until the release of Windows for Workgroups in October 1992. Before the release of Windows for Workgroups you had to use non-Microsoft network protocol software to network Windows boxes.
Oops...typo. Windows 1.0 was released November 1985, not 1983.
That was funny man, I didn't notice when first seeing the picture...
Your hybrid is not saving the environment. Its purpose is to make you feel good about buying something.
Lord knows that's gotten more time on Slashdot than a naked Linus posing...
[pause]
Wait a second...! OH MY GOD!!!
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
You're being too hard on yourself - Windblows 1.0 was announced in 1983.
A Shadeless room is a brighter room.
Geez, Linus is starting to look like a penguin stuffed with fish... ...wait a minute...
"We can confirm that Debian does *not* ship the version with the trojan horse. Our version predates it." [CA-2002-28]
...that imp3.gif looks distressingly similar to certain famous Holocaust photo featuring Night author Elie Wiesel?
Whew.
is this page in? I'd have thought it would at least be alphabetical!
Before the release of Windows for Workgroups you had to use non-Microsoft network protocol software to network Windows boxes.
Ahh.... this explains Lantastic(sp)... that crazy thing that was just fantastic(sic).
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
Want a Japanese Puzzle Box? [pandorapuzzles.com] Ooh! This seller is not currently offering any items for sale. Bah! :-(
Environmentalism is the new Victorianism. Everyone ties on a green corset and pretends we're virtuous.
Linus started new trend, huh? Here are his photos:
one and
two.
I noticed a distinct lack of mention of the Apple I, Lisa, Mac OS, or the first Mac. They may not have a great deal to do with the internet, but neither do the mentions of the other system's creations.
I would like to see them take their place in the timeline as the others do.
> Want a Japanese Puzzle Box? [pandorapuzzles.com] Ooh! This seller is not currently offering any items for sale. Bah! :-(
Actually, I *do* have puzzle boxes for sale on eBay...it appears that eBay has (once again) changed the URL they use for the "View seller's other items" option. Thanks for letting me know about the problem. I've changed my forwarding link and the Want a Japanese Puzzle Box link in my sig should now work.
Yep the site was slashdotted, my poor little 5MB ds3 wasn't quite enough to handle it. BTW I'm the host not the site owner.
Check the mirrors folks its a good site!
Sorry to wbglinks.net!!!
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I can't see any pictures, all I get is text/plain.
we come in peace / shoot to kill
Yup, that works. Those boxes look exquisite. Thanks for fixing the link :-)
Environmentalism is the new Victorianism. Everyone ties on a green corset and pretends we're virtuous.
...don't link to the one of Bill Gates and Paul Allen naked, drinking beer. They probably want to forget about that night. Hell, we all do.
...and I pronounce Lin...Liiiii*burrrrrrrrrrp*iiinux aaas...Lin.....Linninn...noooonoooo.....Noo!Noo!No o!*chuckles*....Nanu-Nanu!*laughs loudly,then passes out*
Alan Cox: Oh, hell with it. Let's try it again tomorrow when he's sober.
Joking aside... It appears someone pulled all content at this time, judging from http://www.wbglinks.net/
Sigh... seems anything interesting on the Internet done by someone without a bandwidth budget gets blown to bits. But ah, yes, the site is completely down.
...but where is the All Your Base Are Belong To Us animation?
He pretended it didn't exist...
"He" wasn't the only one. Someone else already pointed out that your claim that Microsoft invented NetBIOS is incorrect. I'll point out that several other important protocols came to be without considering the Internet.
SNA would be the first on my list of important network systems. IBM created it to provide reliable networking in mainframe, and later minicomputer, environments. Have no doubt about it's importance; for many of the most significant financial institutions in the world there was simply no alternative.
IPX would be next on my list. For most of the corporate world, IPX was their first encounter with LANs. It's heritage is traced back to Xerox. Very large corporate networks have been created based on IPX.
NetBIOS, and other useless products like WINS... Abandoned them after 2001, when he found out the Internet could exist inspite of MS.
NetBIOS hasn't been abandoned. It's alive and well. CIFS is how Microsoft has repackaged most the old Windows network protocols for the Internet. It's hard to say this and mean it, however. It's hard to even define NetBIOS. It's part API, part protocol... what it isn't is abandoned.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
That must be the least satisfying naked picture I've ever seen.
Genuinely important and interesting article that I submitted to slashdot about 3 days after it was published.
3 days after it was published, so two weeks out of date almost then? It was on the Slashdot front page, idiot. Old, old, old, old news. Now fuck off, loser.
No, they cannot blame slashdot for this one. I ask for a gif file, it gives me an html file and claims it is text/plain. That is not caused by high load on the server. That is probably caused by an admin who doesn't know how to properly configure a webserver. Too many webservers violating the standards is a major problem to the world wide web.
Do you care about the security of your wireless mouse?
So the previous story is:
Developers: Savannah Back Online With Extra Security
depesz writes "As we can read here, savannah is back online. After several weeks of downtime, all security problems are resolved, and the service is again operational."
Cool. So can you post a notice when the server in this story is back up, too?
- I am made of meat.
It may not be beer but it's still pretty tasty.
... Linus Malcolm Atterbury
but what do i know, i'm just a model.
Linus with beer
Some names (and photos) seem to be missing.
Not only that, but some names and photos are extraneous and have no relevence to Internet history whatsoever.
To wit, what do Bill Gates and Paul Allen have to do with the history of the Internet? Absolutely nothing. Neither of them innovated a single thing with respect to the Internet, indeed, the Internet blindsided them while they were busy trying to setup a Microsoft version of CompuServe embedded in the windows desktop. Hell, they're still trying, by dumbing down the Internet to CompuServe-esque levels and embedding it into their desktop in the form of a pansy candy-assed butterfly by the name of MSN.
Unless Bill Gates is going down as the End of the History of Internet, killed by his desktop monopoly and wide deployment of DRM (events which have yet to happen, and arguably may never occur), his presence, while perhaps relevant to the history of personal computing, certainly isn't with repect to the history of the 'net.
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icann see having pictures of linus et al. even mr allen seems to be a deceNT sort. but what the fud has the felonious softwar gangster naykid furor dictator of the payper liesense kingdumb of fud, done for the 'net, beside attempting to turn it into sum kind of garmeNT disstricked?
robbIE/lairIE's pateNTdead, whoreabully infactdead PostBlock(tm) devise is still broken again early this a.m., despite having blocked ranges of ip's across our great nation which was built on the notion of freedom of speech, etc...?
Can't view anything off that site. Websense is blocking the site.
Slashdotted or just bad links?
The internet runs on IP, not TCP/IP Take a course in datacommunications and/or networking from someplace other than Microsoft!
User Datagram Protocol Transmission Control Protocol are layer 4 protocols, whereas IP is the layer3 protocol that constitutes what you think of as the internet.
Are you ignorant enough to need the links to the RFC?
Go back to your cave
Two things wrong with the website: 1) It's using HTML 2.0 2) Wrong MIME type
Pelé!
He was kicked out of the clubhouse for making an ass of himself...
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
slashdotted! Sorry but the site's been featured on slashdot.org and the bandwidth is through the roof. We've had to take it down to preserve the sanity of our web host. Come back in a few hours. Thanks! bglinks.net Staff 07:16 12/24/03
It's actually a requirement. Didn't you read the Important Stuff underneath the submit button?
Then again, I don't think I know what I'm talking about.
There is only a half-picture of Linus. They left out his Penguin.
There apparently very aware of there situation and proud of it, check the main site wdgblinks.net li http://www.wbglinks.net/
This sig was generated by a barrel of trained kittens for SeXy_Red (550409).
Just curious. Seems like it would be a nice thing to do, although tanked websites via /.ing is kind of a joke around here, I'm sure its less funny to the webmaster, despite their flattery.
Well, I really don't mind being *cough *cough /.ing (I hope I got that right). ...And I do find it all amusing...I just don't want people to think my site is gone...and that would give people the idea to COPY my work...hum, which isn't all that bad I suppose...since I do believe EVERYTHING on the Net should be free.
Anyway. Thanks to the readers of Slashdot for taking out WBG Links. Dee-DoS like the way it should be, minus the zombies...whatever the hell that means. :-) Contact@WBGLinks.net
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Ahh the joys of Trumpet Winsock
I was waiting for someone to mention Winsock.
Be careful which RFC, and which TCP, you mean: RFC 675, "SPECIFICATION OF INTERNET TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM," or RFC 760, "DOD STANDARD INTERNET PROTOCOL." The original TCP was the precursor to IP, and Cerf and Kahn invented it. The RFC for IP edited by Postel (a later RFC replaced it) was a refinement of Cerf and Kahn's work.
does it include the very first /. goatse link?
Wh47 d1d j00 541, 31337 15n't t3h r0xor5 ne m0r3???
Um, well, are you saying that MSFT *isn't* going to be charging for the FAT filesystem?
I'm happy to help a fellow /.'er! You can find all the info you need here, and if that doesn't work, you can just go here.
You're welcome!
Foiled again
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
Netbios did not come from Microsoft, it came from Sytek. They built a broadband LAN system way back in the early 1980's. The chief designers of Netbios were folks like Greg Ennis and Mark Gang. A lot of the semantics of netbios were dictated by the particular characteristics of Sytek's broadband system and by the need to squish the entire system into just a couple K bytes of ROM.
RFC1001/1002 (Netbios over TCP) came out in early 1987 (mea culpa). I do not believe that anyone from Microsoft participated in that RFC work.
Not sure where I got this classic but I believe it's the Microsoft team from 1978:
Microsoft Team - 1978
The picture of the bbn team must have been cropped, cuz I can't find Al Gore.
Interesting that Charles Babbage is mentioned, but not Ada Byron.
I mod down pyramid schemes in sigs.
Perhaps the Architect (played by Helmut Bakaitis) from the matrix 2 & 3 was inspired by Vinton Cerf
Or perhaps it is just a coincidence.
It's true that the famous IBM/Microsoft partnership gave us cheap commodity computers. But that was not by design -- in fact, IBM made every effort to prevent competitors from cloning its product. Luckily, their main safeguard (copyright and trade secret protection of the ROM BIOS) turned out to be totally ineffective.
Microsoft's the #1 player in Internet software now, but they were practically the last major player to recognize the explosive acceptance of the Internet. Remember Windows 95? It was originally distributed with no Internet support at all, despite the extreme Internet buzz in the media. Instead, it had a lot of hooks to the MSN online service. Even as the AOL and CompuServe online services were converting themselves into ISPs, Microsoft was expending a huge effort on this obsolete concept. When it became painfully obvious that the Internet wasn't a passing fad, they had to dip into their pockets for catch-up development and licensing of the necessary tech. Of course, their pockets are very, very deep, so they soon dominated the marketplace. But it's hardly an impressive example of contributing to acceptance.