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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. First Post. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post!!

    Yay.

  2. hot diggity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1?

    1. Re:hot diggity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      2!

  3. WEISHEIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ALL HEIL JON WEISHEIT

  4. Should've used Windows... by chrispyman · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They should've been using Windows... we all know that Windows never crashes, ever.

  5. 10 years of solid spanking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I love to whack, baby!

  6. Fir5t' post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    started work on dim. If *BSD is of FrreBSD Usenet Deve7opment models

  7. Re:Before the Stanford machine crashed... by daeley · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, they got it when they bought Cyberdyne Systems. They got some other machines, too, but it's best not to talk about those, ah, units.

    --
    I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
  8. Re:I'm older than the Internet by 4 months by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, but your mama never complains about 'em! She loves it when I give her a good tea bagging.