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Remembering 50 Years of (and Leading Up To) the Internet
katrina writes "Covering the infamous MafiaBoy bank hack, the launch of the first ever online newspaper — MIT's 'The Tech' — and Brewster Kahle developing the Internet Archive back in 1996, five decades of the most significant Internet developments, hacks, legal battles and innovations have been documented in a massive historical article on Cnet UK."
I thought Al Gore was only in his 50's.... How old was he when he invented this stuff anyway? This is getting hard to believe now....
"Computers are a lot like Air Conditioners" "They both work great until you start opening Windows"
The title of the article is "The 50 most significant moments of Internet history", the title of the Slashdot story? "Remembering 50 Years of (and Leading Up To) the Internet" .. whatever, the fuck, that means.
Disgrace.
How we know is more important than what we know.
...as the Internet (and even ARPANET) didn't exist in 1958, as you may have guessed.
The determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language.
Read the article instead - it appears to be concise, well-written and nicely formatted. It looks like a job well done by cnet UK.
Part of the hardcore faithful who believed in Apple long before it was cool again to do so
Pft, I would take this article with a big grain of salt... everyone knows the Internet was invented by Al Gore in the late 80's.
Cool! Amazing Toys.
No kidding!
I'm sure the article is great and wonderful, but I made a decision a few months ago to no longer bother with any site that splits their
articles
needlessly
across
multiple
pages.
APR 1973: Al Gore invents Internet
Al Gore, with the aid of certain unimportant organizations like DARPA and certain unimportant people, invented the TCP/IP standard. He is also credited with invention of email, instant messaging, IRC chatrooms, Usenet, the Gopher browser, the World Wide Web, search engines, and web 2.0.
Canter and Siegel? Where are Canter and Siegel? They got the fist little spam, but this actually coined the term.
Internet time, ya know. http://www.swatch.com/us_en/internettime.html
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
And the reporting the The Tech sucks as much as it ever has. Oh how the times have changed (and haven't)
You gotta find first gear in your giant robot car
.. Slashdot doesn't, not even in the 100 most significant moments. I don't get it.
...but it seems the internet is about to lose it's future. It's sad how they want to tear down one of the better tools humanity has come up with in the recent years.
Talking about the invention of 4chan is like talking about the invention of masturbation: It was bound to happen, we all do it from time to time, and it won't ever be discussed on CNet.
Cool! Amazing Toys.
Yeah, I was thinking how Al Gore could have created it so young. Really a prodigious!
This list seems incomplete, it makes no mention of Java, not even in the honorable mentions! No, not JavaScript, but the Java Virtual Machine. I remember all kinds of websites back in the day using Java applets and there was that whole fight between Microsoft and Sun Systems. I think Java is a significant part of internet history, but others might differ on that.
Didn't Apple have their own version of the net sometime in the early 90's? I think they went belly up in 95 or 96.
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
Yeah, I was thinking how Al Gore could have created it so young. Really a prodigious!
And a prodigy too!
The article says that Apache "succeeded the HTTP daemon developed by Rob McCool in the 70s".
Surely they mean the 90s, when the HTTP protocol was invented?
(The statement is backed by a reference to The Telecommunications Illustrated Dictionary which also says he developed it in the 1970s...)
No way am I going to click through 10 pages of ads to read 2-3 pages of content.
Greatest of condolences to our new CBS Overlords.
Imagination drew in bold strokes, instantly serving hopes and fears, while knowledge advanced by slow increments...
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Youtube is here for only 3 years? I'm honestly shocked, it feels like it's been here forever.
As a result more and more of the Internets content isn't targeted towards us anymore.
Do they make more money when we view 1 page of ads or 12? Are they catering to us or the money?
If they weren't targeting the advertisement money versus dedicated readers they could have the option of viewing 1 or 2 pages with ads instead of 12.
I think it's probably advertising. Why just expose the reader to 1 advertisement when you can make it 12.
It's asinine. I mean I guess the argument could be made that it's like turning the pages in a book, but to counter that there is the fact that if I flip the page in a book, I don't have to wait for the page to load. Let alone have to look at lots of superfluous junk that has no bearing on what I'm trying to read.
I did not see a link in the article to put it all one page. I understand the temptation to garner additional ad revenue for laying out the article this way, but I appreciate even more when they provide a "print this article" or "show on one page" link for those of us who. don't. like. interrupted. reading.
Here's a plug for the Firefox addon: Re-pagination. Just right click on the "Next" link at the top of the article and then select "Re-Pagination > All". Not perfect, but it gets the job done.
Alternatively, here are direct links to each of the pages in the article:
Chapter 1) In the Beginning
Chapter 2) Wiring the Web
Chapter 3) All About Email
Chapter 4) Welcome to the Social
Chapter 5) Online Media
Chapter 6) Web Property
Chapter 7) Web 1.0
Chapter 8) Web 2.0
Chapter 9) Law and Order
Chapter 10) Most Epic Fails
They gave credit at the end to some of the notable mentions that didn't make the final list.
Sorta like this?
http://www.flasharcade.com/fun-games/play-1587/slap-the-candidate-game.html
itunes? ? ? digg????? Puhlease! These have about as as much to do with the internet and its history and development as I do to creating the universe. Under notable/honorable mentions... you've got a ton of stuff that if it didn't exist would mean alot of things would not be around today.....lets seee.. WithOUT FidoNet and BBS' period much of the concept of "netmail" and etc. would be non existant. FidoNet and the BBS community are responsible for alot more than just an "notable mention." SMTP???? HMMMMMM Do you think this might be important????? Naaahhh Its just the PROTOCOL THAT MOVES EMAIL FROM SERVER TO SERVER! Thats not important. SMTP IS A HUGE DEVELOPMENT! Hayes modems??? Ummm HELLO.... With out the ubiquitous Hayes modems and its clones most people would never have been able to connect to an ISP and the Internet......You also totally blew off Compuserve and QLink remember them....they started as serving Commodore users and became A O L ! ! ! Cisco???? Ummm, nope, they certainly are not more worthy than a notable mention......Lets see the fact that they probably make 80-90% of the equipment that makes the internet work couldn't make them important to the development of the internet.....nope..... digg???? Your kidding right?????? digg wouldn't be around if it were not for SLASHDOT! /. /. /. Feel the slashdot effect!?? Ever hear of it????? Around long for digg and its wannabe siblings. You totally blew them off, not even a notable mention.....
JenniCam on notable mention???? You start off with a piece about porn and sex on the internet....well JenniCam was the first and you can not place it on a notable mention list when it started a genre of sites to follow.
Considering some of the other items on the "notable" list... its clear that the writer has not been around the development of internet technologies and is a recent adopter.....the clues??? digg, twitter, itunes! These have ZERO, no LESS THAN ZERO value to the development of the internet except to the mindless sheeple using them.
If you don't know what uucp is and how it was a factor in the expansion and development of the internet then you have no business writing the article. The fact that you put Cisco on a notable mention list shows how little the author understands the development and status quo of the internet.
1311393600 - Back to Black
You are right, 100 percent, about everything.
Making a story up, however, that appealed to the geeks and told the truth wouldn't sell advertising. As proof, look above, and see all the tech geeks bitching about not clicking through 10 pages of ads for the article itself.
The people that WILL click through those ads are the ones that won't believe the truth or who honestly don't know what the hell the internet was 10 years ago. Hell, before the sub 1K dollar PC, the internet was a geek refuge. Before online gaming took off (WoW, for one), not a lot of people gave a flying fuck what the internet was.
One of the biggest and best hacks was recrystalling my Hayes 300 baud to get 450 baud out of it.
I remember having to dial in through TeleNET or TYMEnet to get on to CompuSERVE, or ANYTHING else, since I lived in sticks (magically, after having lived everywhere just about in the US, I find myself 40 miles from where I started lol, so I have WiFi access to the internet now).
It would be nice if someone would do a geek article on this subject as well. They did their best, but after all, advertising is what the internet has become.
--Toll_Free
Want something significant to ignore? Tymnet - the world's largest commercial network - in 1976.
Actually, I don't expect much else from an article written by some 20-somethings.
To see exactly where the World Wide Web is going, what progress now looks like, try to save a flattened copy of that entire article to a local file, either as HTML or perhaps as an OO or DOC file; you'll have to use a doo-dad like the AntiPagination or RePagination extensions for Firefox, unless you want to drive yourself nuts trying to successively cut and paste each of the twelve pages.
What you initially get when you're done is mostly not even the article at all: it's all "secondary" page content. When this secondary and irrelevant content is removed, the article itself proves to not really be very long at all, and wouldn't justify scattering it across twelve pages... except for CNet UK wanting to artificially increase page views in doing so. I find it telling that an article about the history of the Internet would be so utterly littered with dreck as to be almost unbearable to view.
I don't know anything of Tim Berners-Lee's values, but if he's at all idealistic about his creation then this current state of "progress" must surely drive him to seek solace in a prescription or two. I know it does me; I need a refill after those twelve pages.
Well, what about Tesla? :P
Ginga no Rekshiya Mata Each page.
...particularly when, for no apparent reason, the links to go back and forward through the article are labeled 'Previous Photo' and 'Next Photo'.
When I was your age, we had to flip through printed pages full of ads to follow news stories that were continued on page 42. And then someone had torn out that one because the crossword puzzle was on the back.
And the ink smudged and got all over everything as well.
Have gnu, will travel.
text browser are rad
This article is mostly fluff from past 5 years. No mention of the Morris Worm . Article definately written by a poseur .. .
"Trusting every aspect of our lives to a giant computer was the smartest thing we ever did.." Homer Simpson
uhh.. what? mafiaboy just DoSed a few random websites. what does that have to do with banks? and he probably didn't even do it. he's an incompetent idiot; I was in the efnet "takeover group" he was in when he did it.
And all along I figured he was just a skiddie who DDoS'd a few high profile websites..