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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. Added an entry for you by isBandGeek() · · Score: 0, Redundant

    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.