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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."
GNAA blows it.
The server will be slashdotted because of the Linus picture IMO.
FUCK YOU!
Hey, Slashdot, need some help here. With New Year coming I need to renew my SCO-compliant Linux license, and even though I sent them $699 last year, I guess it's time for another check. I lost the address and the phone number that I am supposed to send the check to.
The money is ready and is in the envelope, anyone got the address of SCO Group somewhere on top of their desk? Thanks.
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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What's the connection??? If Bill G had his way, ,the internet would've been history!
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If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
I know they say not to bich and moan about not getting stories published but jeez, if they let this through the editorial process they must have something against me. Maybe it's a slow news day.
Oh, and why does Linus look really fat in the first two pictures and skinny in the last ones? Does drinking beer really make you skinny?
Comeon somebody please: find a good story out there, something has to be happening!
I haven't posted in so long, my sig is out of date.
Wait
-- "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong." -- HL Mencken
Tired of looking at black-on-white pictures...
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
your match, curtosey OSDN
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/
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!
Is there a mirror for this site? My ISP(Etisalat in U.A.E) has for some reason blocked access to the site.
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
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!
Bwa-ha-ha! U.A.E.
Bwa-ha-ha!
I can vote. yuo r teh suxx0r!
Bwa-ha-ha! I can view an uncensored Internet. My girlfriend is allowed to drive. Automobiles, even.
Seriously, what are a bunch of 10th century hold-outs doing with computers? I mean, besides looking at pr0n.
(Is there Camel-pr0n on the Internet, and if so, would towelheads censor it, or make it the national homepage?)
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....
I think it's this one here.
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?
MONKEY MAIL 4--
AL GORE INVENTED THE INTERNET?
Al Gore took credit for inventing the Internet?!?
THE MONKEY MAIL CLAIMS:
Democrats will lie, cheat and steal from their mothers. Al Gore said that he would abide by the people, the people spoke, and he and the democrats don;t know right from wrong. They speak from both sides of their mouth.NOw Gore who invented the internet???????Give me a break"
SPANKING THE MONKEY
Transcript: Vice President Gore on
CNN's 'Late Edition'
March 9, 1999
CNN'S WOLF BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.
Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?
AL GORE: Well, I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.
But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
During a quarter century of public service, including most of it long before I came into my current job, I have worked to try to improve the quality of life in our country and in our world. And what I've seen during that experience is an emerging future that's very exciting, about which I'm very optimistic, and toward which I want to lead.
By the way, although the press has debunked this stupid story about a million times, Republicans keep banging that tired old drum. Why? Because they cannot attack Gore's morality (he was never a pantyhound like George W.), or his policies (most Americans give Gore and the Democrats the edge on the issues). So they keep throwing lies around, hoping some will catch on. Some do. The world is full of stupid people.
CASE IN POINT: (I don't have to name names, do I?)
MORE ON GORE AND THE INTERNET
FROM BOB DELAY
(Yes, 'that' Delay... READ ON)
From: Bob DeLay
To: thediva@coup2k.com
BCC: bc_pubshort@yahoo.com ; MWO
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 12:54 AM
Subject: al gore and the internet
Sometimes I feel so all alone in the world.
According to Microsoft's very own reference resource, BOOKSHELF '96, Al Gore did pretty much invent the internet. We might assume that Microsoft would have a pretty good handle on that particular issue and would know what they're/it's talking about. Here's an excerpt from an article entitled, "The Internet: How did it originate?" (That's "ORIGINATE". Does something "originate" when it is "invented", dammit? So let's put this crap to rest forever. THROW IT AT THE PIGS!) The excerpt:
"In 1991, Vice President Al Gore, then a U.S. senator, proposed widening the architecture of NSFNET to include more K-12 schools, community colleges, and 2-year colleges. The resulting legislation expanded NSFNET and renamed it NREN (National Research and Educational Network). This bill also allowed businesses to purchase part of the network for commercial uses. The mass commercialization of today's Internet is the direct result of this legislation." (That is a verbatim, copied-and-pasted quote.)
I repeat for effect: "THE MASS COMMERCIALIZATION OF TODAY'S INTERNET IS THE DIRECT RESULT OF THIS LEGISLATION." Well, heck: it looks very much as if Al Gore invented in the Internet!
Of course, Bill Gates (Columbia and Funk & Wagnalls) doesn't know anythi
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
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
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.
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.
Especially when compared to fp45
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
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...
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]
Non-linkable so the referrer tags don't show.
www.nakkidnerds.com/members/index.php
login: jobmark
pass: passfan
Yeah, that pass should last about, oh, ten goddamn seconds.
Not like there's a point. Girls up on there are all kinda icky. Not like raverporn (now eroticbpm) or burningangel. Now *there*'s some good geek porn.
Raverporn gives new meaning to use strict. Goddamn.
...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!
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.
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!!!
Nobodies Prefect
Tidbits for Techs Technology Blog
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?
That must be the least satisfying naked picture I've ever seen.
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.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
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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Merry Christmas to you all
To all Rush listeners:
Ha ha.
To Limbaugh:
It is tough when you have to suffer the debilitating effects of your drug abuse: a vast left-wing conspiracy
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???
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.