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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. It's actually about 50 events spanning on 40 years by NixieBunny · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...as the Internet (and even ARPANET) didn't exist in 1958, as you may have guessed.

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  2. Forget the Problematic Summary by Apple+Acolyte · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read the article instead - it appears to be concise, well-written and nicely formatted. It looks like a job well done by cnet UK.

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    Part of the hardcore faithful who believed in Apple long before it was cool again to do so