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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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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.