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The Internet At 35
Anonymous writes "CNN has a story on the 35th anniversary of the Internet, overviewing its past and the future. According to the article the history began on 'September 2, 1969, as bits of meaningless test data flowed silently between the two computers.' So, happy birthday, the Internet!"
So which is it? 25? or 35? Come on... :p
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"The Internet At 25"... but it started in 1969. I think this "Internet" is a lot like some 35 year old guys I've seen in various chatrooms trying to convince all of the co-eds that they're really 25.
...Ah yes, the internet. Putting porn and pipebomb instructions in the hands of 13-year olds since September 3rd, 1969...
1) 1 x 1 pixel of goatse.cx 2) Two sentence SPAM email trying to get investors into something called TCP/IP 3) The famous "Nixon" worm of '69. Crippled 3 machines.
...that the largest discussion of the difference between 25 and 35 in the history of the internet is about to ensue.
Ah, the Internet. Designed so that even in the event of nuclear war, our military leaders would still be able to access pornography.
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It would forever be 29 years old.
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I think the editors are under enough stress. I mean they first have to make sure the article wasnt posted 3 times before and do a spell check. Now you all want them to check basic math. gessh give them a break
I hope you don't live in the USA or you are in serious trouble for copyright infrigement on the "Happy Birthday" song!
Sept 2 should be a national holiday.
What are you getting for Internet Day?
Why a new Cisco 7x00 series router!
Thank you Linus Claus!
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"All joking aside though, I have no idea how people got anything done before the internet."
:)
That was back when people still left their houses to find their friends, and read books to research those obscure factoids
"E pur si muove!" - attributed to Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642
Now I understand why you paid $115 for your current user ID, dolo666.
What you are talking about? Increasing delay? There is already 10 years delay on this article!
:wq
So they first tested Internet with spam? With that kind of a start no wonder we're in the current mess!
The Internet suddenly has a mid-life crisis. Looking back on its life, it realizes its squandered its time on earth on porn, e-commerce, and petty IM conversations. . The Internet feels hollow and worthless. To console itself, it buys a Porsche from www.porsche.com, and takes it out on the road. Now feeling youthful and vibrant, the Internet uses the Porsche to woo a younger network. Soon enough, the Internet and the younger network are in the throes of a sultry affair. One night, the Internet's rubber breaks and he accidentally gets the younger network pregnant. Scared, the Internet runs away, and the younger network is left on its own to raise the Subnet. The Subnet grows into a full Class C and then into an Internet of its own.
And another thing- if the Internet really is 25 (or 35, whatever)- how come she has so many web sites that say she just turned 18?
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They have the internet on computers now?
What I am looking forward to the day when we finally get beyond the meaningless test data phase...uh, anyway, I looked at /. for the day and am off to the email account to perform a spam harvest.