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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. Thank you Al Gore!! by MindDelay · · Score: 0, Troll

    we all need to stop and thank the man that made all of this possible....Al Gore. and while we're at it, lets thank him for sucking so much that he couldn't beat a total idiot in an election and now the world is a worse off place than it was 4 years ago....so, thank you Al Gore!!! happy birthday internet.

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    Spiral out. Keep going...
    1. Re:Thank you Al Gore!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Yes. All Hail Algore.... inventor of the Internet, misunderstood advocate of the Clipper Chip, champion of Capital Punishment for the mentally ill, and overall Campaign Finance genius extraordinaire. A man whose combined knowledge of the law and sheer creativity enabled breakthroughs into new realms of government abuse. Let us now toast the fact that this man was truly unique.