Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

The Internet At 35

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can-drive-drink-and-buy-porn dept.

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!"

3 of 321 comments (clear)

  1. The ARPAnet, not quite the Internet by isdnip · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, let's not let the title get too carried away on accuracy, even disregarding its subtraction error. In 1969, the prototype ARPAnet started up. It used NCP (TCP/IP came later). It didn't become the "Internet" until there were multiple interconnected networks, and that was not until the early 1980s, after the TCP/IP transition (which was completed in 1983). There were multiple networks once the more production-oriented MILNET split off of the more research-y ARPAnet. And after that came CSnet and all sorts of others.

    But yes, it was in many ways better in the early days (pre-1993), because there was no spam, or for that matter any other advertising. Although Google and the like do sort of make up for it.

  2. Re:What progress by Inthewire · · Score: 5, Informative

    Air conditioning.
    Polio vaccine.
    Traffic lights.
    Frozen food.
    Television.
    Large-scale farming.
    Credit cards.
    Flouride.

    There have been dozens if not hundreds of things invented in the past 100 years that have changed lifestyles more than the internet.

    --


    Writers imply. Readers infer.
  3. Re:ipv6 vs ipv4 inaccuracy in CNN article by suwain_2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ipv4 running out of room is a bit of a myth -- there's still plenty of companies and uninversities with huge blocks of ipv4 address space that they have for historical reasons.

    Rather than debunk the myth, you've proved it.

    The whole reason we're "running out of room" is that "old" companies have massive netblocks they're not even beginning to use.

    This is like saying, "There's still plenty of land left in the city. Big companies bought it all up to hold onto." There's plenty of unused IPs out there. The problem is that they'll probably never be assigned.

    I once wrote a script to do a whois on every Class A, and lump them into a text file. I was surprised to find that the United States Government owns something like 30 Class A's.

    It's not a lack of unused IPs. It's a lack of allocatable IPs.

    --
    ________________________________________________
    suwain_2 :: quality slashdot p