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30th Birthday of the Internet
Dymaxion writes "September 2nd is officially the 30th birthday of the Internet, being the day that the first packets were sent between the Sigma 7 mainframe that was the first internet node and its Honeywell based IMP (Internet Message Processor) at UCLA. There is a party at UCLA to celebrate the event, and although the deadline for RSVP's is over for that party, go ahead and throw your own. "
Brothers and Sisters of the Information Age, hear me!!
:)
We must go forth to our various places of activity on the Internet, and spread this Joyous news for all to share! Sadly, many of our brothers and sisters live in the dark, and do not know about the Internet's Birthday. So be a light in the darkness, and at some point in your Internet activities make the Good News known to those around you.
Aside: Please don't spam people doing so either as I'd hate to be responsible for something as idiotic as that. Thank you.
I don't think Rob ever posted an explanation of this. I think I've read the relevant moderation info, although I may have missed it. I also know someone with permanent moderation status. He's not a friend of Rob's or anything. Anyone know how one gets that?
Go figure, and for some reason, rob's scripts have given me a default score of 2. Guess I'm just really magical or something.
If you post a number of articles that are moderated up, your default score gets boosted. I have no idea how many it takes, but I too am one of the Chosen...;-)
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
Heh here's an idea. stop spending 12 hours a day on the internet.
That just might solve a problem or two.
Don't Blaim the Object of your addiction for your own inability to solve your problems.
And finally. get some help. or you are gonna have more problems in the future. There _ARE_ 12 step programs out there. don't ask me where, search yahoo for "internet addiction 12 step" or something. mabey you'll get laid once in a while, after you get 'cured'
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Yes, I'm replying to my own message. From the timeline on UCLA's site it looks like Sept 2 was the first ping within a node, but on Octo 20 they actually sent a message to another host, at the Stanford Research Institute. Personally, I'd side with the second as the real birthday.
See The Story of the PING Program by its programmer. Slashdot covered this topic in Review: The Story About Ping.
So when did you sign the NSF agreement cancelling the previous restriction? Are you still restricted? :-)
CNN.COM has graced it's homepage with this news. It has information, and a bit'o'lore.
-- What you do today will cost you a day of your life.
I betcha he is celebrating too - he was in it from the very beginning. Hat's off Al!
damn.. beat me to the political punch! Oh well, maybe my hysterical Internet rantings are catching on. See the rise and fall of the internet and what you can do about it.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Well, you've seen your kid grow up showing unusual promise at first...
...but then it nears its 30th Birthday and gets seduced by the dark side and starts talking shit like "portals" and "branding" and "American Corporate Imperialism" and insists on being as rhizomatic as a ruddy fart...
...Yes, happy birthday internet.
This is true, however Mrs. Gore has found it in her heart, with the help of her Creator, to forgive Al his past transgressions. Though Al's bastard love child, The Internet, torments Mrs. Gore's heart, heartless bastards continue to dredge it up.
Al has had no contact with The Internet since the night of its conception, a hazy combination of free love and proscribed narcotics.
Yep, it's that time again. We're all perhaps the closest thing to a world citizen that has ever existed. More so than those jetsetting punks who just subscribe to the philosophy to avoid visas, we all exist in a society that stretches around the world. And we have existed in this society, without government or authority, for 30 years. Lets not let the corporations ruin that.
How we know is more important than what we know.
So how many people posted to their favourite nerd news site, claiming FIRST PING !!!!!!!!!!!?
can be attained with this link. I urge you to wander around the site too for more stuff on the Domain Survey.
It was a past time of mine back in 92 and 93 to download the *entire* host list from these people. It was 20 mb or so at that time!
Now there's *at least* 56 million hosts around. That would be like, huge.
Let the good times roll? Bah.
The Internet was a good idea, but commercialism ruined it.
The term IMP stands for *Interface* Message Processor, not Internet Message Processor. See (eg) the glossary in RFC 760.
Is there a sort of artificial intelligence aspect to this as well? Most of my posts now seem to have the default score of 2, but a few of them have been only one.
Is there a length requirement for the automatically higher score to be applied? That seems reasonable, and it would match the ones I have seen for myself that do or do not get bumped up.
I think this is a positive thing, in a world with too few moderator points; allows a sort of proxy voting which takes a reasonable idea (that someone who posts things which get bumped up by the moderators several times is likely to continue posting interesting things) and applies it without requiring that moderators actually approve each submission.
Is this an accurate (if lowbrow) description of how / why this system works?
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
Ok, so this comment is marked (0, Flamebait). The next comment, which says almost exactly the same thing, just different wording is (2, Funny). Go figure, and for some reason, rob's scripts have given me a default score of 2. Guess I'm just really magical or something.
-matt