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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. I'm older than the Internet by 4 months by HasturGA · · Score: 0, Redundant

    God, I feel old.

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    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (NOTE: Rearrange the preceeding letters to form a funny tagline)
  2. Re:What they meant to type... by networkBoy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    O.k. I'm going to admint my dumbness. . .
    what is up with the 'one!!1!11!' kind of crap anyway? I was just learning the proper use of WTF and OMG and other TLA's.

    Whatever happened to proper hacking?

    been on the net since 1989 and it's peak was in '91 -nB

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    whois gawk date unzip strip find touch finger mount join nice man top fsck grep eject more yes exit umount sleep dump
  3. Re:Man by Frogbert · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It doesn't look a day over 34 thats for sure.