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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. Worst Slashdot Editing EVAR by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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

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

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

      +1 ironic eh?

  3. 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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  4. 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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    1. Re:Forget the Problematic Summary by Apple+Acolyte · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Yeah, I saw that after I posted - that's a little confusing. It would have also been nice to have a chronological listing in addition to their category listing. Still worth reading through (although those damn Flash ads were taking gobs of CPU time).

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  5. Re:Um they missed something important.... by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  6. Re:Um they missed something important.... by houstonbofh · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Canter and Siegel? Where are Canter and Siegel? They got the fist little spam, but this actually coined the term.

  7. 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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  8. While digg makes the list ... by raxhonp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    .. Slashdot doesn't, not even in the 100 most significant moments. I don't get it.

    1. Re:While digg makes the list ... by Hymer · · Score: 2, Insightful

      /. is developed/driven by nerds... oh, wait... so was (and is) the Internet.

  9. 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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  10. Original HTTP deamon developed by NCSA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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...)

     

  11. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  12. Re:Um they missed something important.... by iamstretchypanda · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

  13. Neglected huge items for the recent "hot" things.. by rec9140 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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