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Internet Turns 35 Today

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-downhill-from-here dept.

shadowspar writes "The CBC is reporting that the Internet turned 35 today. The story talks about the less-than-prophetic beginnings of the net: 'In order to log in to the two-computer network, which was then called ARPANET, programmers at UCLA were to type in 'log', and Stanford would reply 'in'. The UCLA programmers only got as far as 'lo' before the Stanford machine crashed.'"

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  1. Man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd swear it only looked 29!

  2. Which? by datGSguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which Internet?

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  3. 21 by happyfrogcow · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think that means Al Gore was only 21 when he invented it

  4. Before the Stanford machine crashed... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    MS must have a time machine.

  5. 35 years by thedogcow · · Score: 5, Funny

    and what a wonderful 35 years of porn collecting it was.

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    1. Re:35 years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...especially considering that the for the first 20 years the porn was entirely text-based.

  6. The unfortunate side of the internet by Sneftel · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the article:
    Kleinrock said he predicted in 1969 that the small network would eventually expand across the globe, making a vast amount of information accessible at any time from anywhere in the world.

    "The part I missed... was that my 97-year-old mother would be on the internet today," he said.

    "...and man, do I ever wish those pictures hadn't gotten onto the 'net."
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    1. Re:The unfortunate side of the internet by null+etc. · · Score: 3, Funny
      Kleinrock said he predicted in 1969 that the small network would eventually expand across the globe, making a vast amount of information accessible at any time from anywhere in the world.
      The prediction was so close!

      Modified for correctness:

      Kleinrock said he predicted in 1969 that the small network would eventually expand across the globe, making a vast amount of junk email accessible at any time from anywhere in the world.
  7. 35 years on by BillsPetMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    and you can go and meet many of the original programmers, now working in home improvement stores up and down the land!

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  8. Thousands of twisty websites by Alien54 · · Score: 4, Funny
    all alike.

    or like galaxies in the night sky, separated by vast expanses of emptines and porn

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    1. Re:Thousands of twisty websites by spuzzzzzzz · · Score: 3, Funny

      It is dark and you are likely to click on a virus-installing link.

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  9. What they meant to type... by ajlitt · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...wasn't "log". It was "lol!!1! did u get my msg??"

  10. 35? by daeley · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn, that's old. I think it's about time for the Internet to packet in.

    Ahem.

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  11. **cough**I-tunes**cough by Tracer_Bullet82 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would have modded you troll, if I had mod points.

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  12. So... by Ryan+Stortz · · Score: 5, Funny

    So....does this mean that after they tried again, the first 3 letters the grace the internet were lol.

    (Lo [crash] Log)

    It's a scary thought....

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  13. Famous internet prediction by me in 1994 by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 4, Funny
    In a 4th year networking class paper:

    "The Web will likely be a novelty while serious research will remain on Gopher."

  14. So Al Gore by kensai · · Score: 3, Funny

    was only like 10 when he invented the Internet. The man's a freakin genius ;)

  15. So that's why... by The-Bus · · Score: 4, Funny

    No wonder. I was heading to lunch today and I drove past Matt Sauper's Chevrolet, and there was the Internet with that new blonde girlfriend of it. I hear she's only in college. As I was parking at the sandwich place, there they went, speeding by me. The Internet apparently bought a solid gold Corvette convertible. At least I thought it was him: the license plate said HTTPIMP.

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  16. Is seems like... by mbrewthx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only yesterday The Internet hosted it's firt pRon site...

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  17. "Maybe if TCP/IP were less formal... by jcuervo · · Score: 3, Funny

    it'd be 'YO!/SUP?' instead" - Thinkgeek

    Seems fitting, though.

    192.168.1.2: 'Lo.
    192.168.1.1: Hey.
    192.168.1.2: 'n I get a shell?
    192.168.1.1: Sure.

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