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."

Comments

Linus

[Anonymous Coward]

The server will be slashdotted because of the Linus picture IMO.

Re:Linus

[bigjocker]

In those pictures are like a dozen jokes waiting to be posted on slashdot ....

BTW, where is the goatse guy?

Re:Linus

[Frymaster]

The server will be slashdotted

don't worry, someone will post the entire... uh... text.

nevermind.

Re:Linus

[Lord_Dweomer]

"In those pictures are like a dozen jokes waiting to be posted on slashdot ...."

Well, hopefully it will lead someone to post some good ones of Natalie Portman covered in hot grits. That's one picture that would be modded +5 informative so fast Slashdot would Slashdot itself.

Re:Linus

[zhenlin]

Actually... Thanks to libshit... Ooops, libcaca, it is now possible to mirror images as text -- coloured text. Unfortunately, /. doesn't do coloured HTML text..

Re:Linus

[Anonymous Coward]

BTW, where is the goatse guy?

for the 5 billionth time: it's not goatse, it's goatse.cx: it's a joke, pronounced like "goatsex", and if you don't pronounce it that way, the joke is lost.

yes, that's right, a goatse.cx post that's +1 informative!

Re:Linus

[Molina the Bofh]

So what ? They'll STILL be displaying what they are proposing. Or don't you think a 404 due to /. is part of the Internet History ?

Re:Linus

[marrandy]

Try the old British favourite

http://www.thesun.co.uk/

http://www.page3.com/

http://www.page3.com/pcards/pcards_home.html

The Page 3 girls are the best !!!

Merry Christmas to you all

I remember the original IMPs

[Animats]

I saw one of the originals, at Case, in the 1960s. Case blew it so badly in computer science R&D that they were kicked off the ARPANET for underperforming. Embarassing.

I've even seen a Pluribus IMP in operation.

Darn.

[The Human Cow]

Try as I might, I couldn't find a picture of Al Gore anywhere on that page.

Re:Darn.

[Valar]

Son, you have no idea of the kind of thread you just started.

I hope you're happy.

Re:Darn.

[benk]

He'll probably say he was in the photo with Linus ... but was just under the table already at that point...

Re:Darn.

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, in this letter, Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, two people on the list and two people often called fathers of the Internet, defend Al Gore on the issue, saying the following:

There are many factors that have contributed to the Internet's rapid growth since the later 1980s, not the least of which has been political support for its privatization and continued support for research in advanced networking technology. No one in public life has been more intellectually engaged in helping to create the climate for a thriving Internet than the Vice President. Gore has been a clear champion of this effort, both in the councils of government and with the public at large.

The Vice President deserves credit for his early recognition of the value of high speed computing and communication and for his long-term and consistent articulation of the potential value of the Internet to American citizens and industry and, indeed, to the rest of the world.

I apologize from any resulting cognitive dissonance and you may now return to listening to Rush.

Re:Darn.

[mcc]

but was just under the table already at that point...

*Looks at photo*

Hmmm.. and if you don't mind me asking, what exactly was he doing down there??

Re:Darn.

[javiercero]

You sir are rather ignorant, I assume that is why the internet runs on IPX or UDP, LOL. Nope, it seems that the TCP/IP (hint the last letters IP are for Internet Protocol) is what the internet runs over. Maybe TCP-IP seems to be a "small" detail to you, but unless you come up with something better... I rather keep Vinton Cerf in his original place and inventing the protocol that the internet uses mostly to transfer data is a rather important achievement. In case you did not know it, it also happens that it was Cerf (together with Kahn) who coined the term "internet" on a '74 paper on TCP. So let's see he came up with the protocol, and the name. Is that just not enough for you?

This is not even close to the apples to oranges comparison you tried to accomplish. Oh, well it is not like ignorance ever stopped anyone from posting on slashdot.

Re:Darn.

[pen]

Just plugging the network cable in. What did you think?

Re:Darn.

[Mr. Jax]

Apples and Oranges - A comparison

Re:Darn.

[Burlynerd]

Anonymous coward, you sure know how to ruin a good joke. BN

Re:Darn.

[cornjones]

The point isn't that Gore "created" the internet. That was a huge spin story. What he was trying to say was that he pushed legislation that helped teh internet become what it was. In the mid 80's (far before most public and virtually any politicians had any concept) he pushed such concepts as a "Data highway" ('86) and wrote for a national data network in '88. (89?) This is exactly the same as when politicians say they "lowered crime" or whatever. They weren't really out there cuffing the bad guys, they were fighting to get money put into their cause. One of Gore's causes evolved into the internet. Not entirely due to him of course but still, he backed the right horse and it took off.

Even Vinton Cerf (created IP, IIRC) went on record w/ "I'd like to clear up one little item - about the Vice President (Gore) ... He really does deserve some credit for his early recognition of the importance of the Internet and the technology that makes it work. He was certainly among the first if not the first in Congress to realize how powerful the information revolution would be and both as Senator and Vice President he has been enormously helpful in supporting legislation and programs to help further develop the Internet - for example the Next Generation Internet program."

Re:Darn.

[glitch23]

You sir are rather ignorant, I assume that is why the internet runs on IPX or UDP, LOL. Nope, it seems that the TCP/IP (hint the last letters IP are for Internet Protocol)

TCP/IP stands for Total Control of People's/Intellectual Property.

But surely, according to SCO...

[benk]

Darl would have to be in there, naked, too.

Wait ... on second thoughts ... I don't want to see that...

Re:But surely, according to SCO...

[AndroidCat]

It's supposed to be people who left a mark. Darl is going to leave a stain.

Re:But surely, according to SCO...

[AndroidCat]

What the denotations bring, the connotations take away. A bench-mark isn't exactly the same as a bench-stain.

the shirtless pic of linus with beer ....

[jms258]

should most definitely be the new linux logo ... drop the penguin.... we can get corporate sponsorship from heineken!

didn't know...

[krahd]

that allen was a ventriloquist!

--krahd

Linus, Linus, Linus..tsk tsk tsk..

[Jediman1138]

I would expect more from a Torvalds..

-shakes head dishonorably-

Re:Linus, Linus, Linus..tsk tsk tsk..

[Geek of Tech]

>> I would expect more from a Torvalds..

What? You expected him to chug the whole six-pack?

Not just Internet history

[Pranjal]

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.

Re:Not just Internet history

[adept256]

Charles Babbage designed a working mechanical computer.

Mechanical.
Computer.

Sheesh, what does it take to get your respect?

Slow links in post

[Veovis]

The server is slashdotted and/or just slow, heres a (hopefully dont slashdot my server) mirror

http://www.mysticunderground.net/mirror/

Naked Linus

[geekBass]

Aah that's why he was ashamed... wait..nevermind.

Who would have thought...

[teamhasnoi]

such a skinny guy would be behind making so many computer users fat?

I Kid! (Besides, I'm working tonight and I feel Christmas fat settling on me even as I type)

Hmm....

[asadchev]

Is there an image of the drunk Steve Ballmer doing monkey dance naked??? It could be the next goatse.

Ut-oh

[BrianGa]

"This page is 100K in size, please be patient while it loads"

Oh boy...

Linus Naked

[rsmith-mac]

Well, I suppose that explains where "free as in beer" came from.

Mmm Free Beer

[waltmarkers]

See! Free beer really will beat out free speech, not only did he stop coding for that beer, he gave up his shirt too!

What the Hell?

[teamhasnoi]

What is the The Woz doing with Billy?

And what's with the rainbow? hmmm...?

(posted from a powerbook, you zealots!)

Linus naked?

[edunbar93]

Linus naked and drinking beer

Mmmm. Geek porn.

Re:Linus naked?

[Anonymous Coward]

Looking at that site, I learned I am not a geek.

Gates and Allen

[Indy1]

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.

Re:Gates and Allen

[teamhasnoi]

Didn't they have something to do with DHCP? Of course, it says right there:

6. Security

DHCP currently provides no authentication or security mechanisms Potential exposures to attack are discussed is section 7 of protocol specification [1].

This lack of authentication mechanism means that a DHCP server check if a client or user is authorized to use a given User Class This introduces an obvious vulnerability when using the User option. For example, if the User Class is used to give out a parameter (e.g., a particular database server), there is no way authenticate a client and it is therefore impossible to check if client is authorized to use this parameter

Sounds like Microsoft...

Re:Gates and Allen

[reiggin]

You're wrong. Point your finger towards Palo Alto. Not Billy Boy "Why Invent When You Can Copy" Gates.

Re:Gates and Allen

[rmpotter]

Sigh... try looking at this bit of HISTORY from a historical perspective. Consider the other names on the list. Some of them were relatively minor players in the grand scheme. Do you seriously believe the people who had a major hand in creating OS's which drive hundreds of millions of PCs should be ignored because you don't believe they "contributed"? It's history. It's evolution. It took MS a long time to create a usable, reliable (though not yet secure) desktop OS which has been deployed on millions of desktops with countless hardware combinations. Linux is inching toward the desktop. but it's not there yet. In the meantime, let's not re-write history.

Re:Gates and Allen

[Anonymous Coward]

Um...

So your logic here is that if Microsoft didn't exist, Apple wouldn't have succeeded in popularizing the GUI because Apple only has 1.8% market share?

Except that 95% of the market share currently belongs to Microsoft. So if Microsoft had never existed, who would have that 95% of the market share?

Microsoft has never created a technology of note. Microsoft has never even popularized a technology of note. All Microsoft knows how to do is take technologies that other people have already invented and popularized and make lots of money off of them. That's not something they really recieve any creativity points for.

Re:Gates and Allen

[Professor Bluebird]

In short, SMB was borrowed from IBM. Here (near the top of the page) is a brief history.

Re:Gates and Allen

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, but with due credit.

In your way the credit for Mona Lisa should go to the people who are making millions of copies and selling them instead of D'Vinci. Also then we need to give credit to people like Micheal Dell and Sam Walton since without them M$ would not be able to sel crap, so according to you they made the internet?

Thieves should be called thieves, dictators should be called dictators and copiers should be called copiers. What you suggest is making thieves creators.

Re:Gates and Allen

[pHDNgell]

Didn't they have something to do with DHCP?

I got in an argument with a windows adminstrator at work a few years ago about this. He'd always tell me how wonderful Microsoft is and cite things that had nothing to do with MS. One day I told him I was taking away their DHCP server because they weren't doing much with it and we needed to use it for the Unix servers. He told me that Windows would do it better because DHCP is a Microsoft invention. I pointed him to the standard and asked him to show me the word ``Microsoft.'' Nothing, of course.

This particular RFC (3004) you're referencing is regards to a new option to be added to DHCP. That they'll extend a protocol is not news.

Re:Gates and Allen

[DerPflanz]

what have they EVER contributed to the net

How about massive acceptation? The internet has been around since 1969 or so, but with the developments in cheap hardware (thanks to IBM and Microsoft) and an easy to use operating system (again Microsoft), the internet had the environment to grow and become massively accepted by non-technical people. This acceptation then led to a faster, cheaper and bigger internet. The one we now use. Don't think too technical, social developments count too in 'The History of the Internet'.

Re:Gates and Allen

[Avihson]

The computer GUI. Without windows you'd still be using a text based system, and probably Lynx or Links on nothing but a 16 color CGA moniter but maybe with a 200 by 120 character screen!.

Funny, how is then that my Weiss 286-6 had EGA (gasp) and a NEC multisync II back then before windows? Maybe I was doing CAD? or even sharing 256 color porn? Ever hear of the Amiga or PC-Geos? I guess you believe that the MAC-OS is a clone of Windows..

Naaa It had to be Big Brother Bill, from whom all blessings flow:
O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

Re:Gates and Allen

[pjt48108]

Actually, the word is 'acceptance,' but that is beside the point.

My own introduction to the Internet was on my old Macintosh LCII, nearly ten years ago. MS and IBM had little to do with that computer, as I recall. The first browser I used was Mosaic (well, the first graphical one--previously I fiddled with Lynx on my local BBS--to which I connected via telnet on my LCII).

As mentioned previously, MS was blindsided by the Internet and WWW. If any ONE entity was responsible for bringing it to the masses, my vote would go to American Academia, and more specifically, the chaps at Berkeley, who gave us BSD and, consequently, the variants thereof (on which ran and run a multitude of BBS's--I have yet to encounter one running on a MS platform, and if I did, I wouldn't linger there long). Students and researchers used the Internet and email, and of course these things slopped over from academic life to 'real' life.

If anything, MS has been a bane to the Internet, given their insecure OS, which opened the masses up to virus distribution, DDOS attacks, RPC thrillrides, etc., etc., etc.

Sometimes I wish they'd have just stuck with MS Bob...

One important missing image

[Jon Abbott]

I just checked their website, and they didn't have my personal favorite...

Missing names (and photos)

[karl.auerbach]

Some names (and photos) seem to be missing.

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 ... and many many others. One more than a few occassions siblings were involved - Judy and Deborah Estrin, and the Lyons brothers come to mind.

Carl Malamud's 1992 book, "Exploring the Internet" has a lot of anecdotes and a few photos.

Re:Missing names (and photos)

[arcanis]

Hear hear! Dave Mills was head of all sorts of stuff relating to the early 'net, in addition to inventing NTP. I can't believe they left him out! He was totally robbed.

Unfortunate omission

[mcc]

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.

huh

[standsolid]

look at that. naked and drinking beer. huh.

Why are they all so pasty ?

[anti-NAT]

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 again

Hmmmmmm, 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.).

Re:hey!

[Liselle]

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.

rhymes with...

[i_should_be_working]

his name is pronounced "lee-nus"??

good thing he didn't grow up in an english speaking country

Others

[anti-NAT]

John T. Moy - OSPF Tony Li (BGP), Yakov Rehkter (BGP, MPLS)

Linus

[borgasm]

Why did I immediately click on the picture of Linus drinking beer naked!!!!

I think I had a freudian click.

ewwww

[index72]

Thats not what I call Christmas cheer.

Beer, Photos, and Linus

[Bowie J. Poag]

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: ........oh no f*@*&$ing way...

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...

Re:Bill Gates and internet history?

[divide overflow]

>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.

No goatsex?

[wrinkledshirt]

Lord knows that's gotten more time on Slashdot than a naked Linus posing...

[pause]

Wait a second...! OH MY GOD!!!

Kernel maintainer drunk and half-naked

[Anonymous Coward]

Linus started new trend, huh? Here are his photos:
one and
two.

slashdotted!

[toygeek]

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!!!

That's nice...

[fuck_this_shit]

...but where is the All Your Base Are Belong To Us animation?

Re:Bill Gates and internet history?

[Tailhook]

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.

Couldn't resist...had to look....garrrhhh....

[baudtender]

That must be the least satisfying naked picture I've ever seen.

Extraneous names and photos

[FreeUser]

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.

He didn't make it....

[twoslice]

BTW, where is the goatse guy?

He was kicked out of the clubhouse for making an ass of himself...

Re:/.ed and proud of it!

[wbglinks]

I'm the owner of WBG LInks. 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