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Remembering 50 Years of (and Leading Up To) the Internet

Posted by timothy on from the let's-cut-them-some-slack-on-the-nomenclature dept.

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."

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  1. wait a minute... 50 years by gearloos · · Score: 2, Funny

    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....

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  2. Re:It's actually about 50 events spanning on 40 ye by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 3, Funny

    Internet time, ya know. http://www.swatch.com/us_en/internettime.html

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  3. Re:Um they missed something important.... by inKubus · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

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  4. Re:It's actually about 50 events spanning on 40 ye by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, I was thinking how Al Gore could have created it so young. Really a prodigious!

  5. Re:Worst Slashdot Editing EVAR by poopdeville · · Score: 2, Funny

    Watch out. The editors have started modding complaints down again.

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  6. Re:Worst Slashdot Editing EVAR by iamstretchypanda · · Score: 2, Funny

    +1 ironic eh?