Happy Birthday to the Internet!
Happy Birthday to the Internet!
Today the Internet turns 40. Before we get into the details of all that this wondrous creation has brought us, let's look back to where it all began.
Around forty years ago, UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock and his colleagues were working on a project funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency, a program of the U.S. Department of Defense. The project was called ARPANET, and it was a network comprised of four nodes with terminals in UCLA, Stanford, the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of Utah.
On October 29, 1969, a message was successfully sent from the terminal in UCLA to the terminal in Stanford. Although the system initially crashed, another attempt was successful and here we are, forty years later, with our bottomless pit o' porn and Viagra that is the World Wide Web. Group hug!
So, let's raise a glass to the Internet. You've grown from that oh-so-primitive network to something that can pay my bills, feed my cat, buy my shoes and feed all of my tech-related habits. Is there anything it can't do?
What impact has the Internet had on your life? Let us know in the comments below!
Now, where should I send this horrible, singing, ecard ...
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the best thing since sliced bread...
Happy B-day Interwebs....
The Game.
YAY! *throws cakes around*
Forgot to mention it brought us online gaming..One of the best thing to happen to video games since 3dfx
the net..for me...well the beginning sucked. I mean the 1999 and onward as a noob version. mid 2000s saw almost normal, like today. I disagree with the history. Top Secret always has one name, one location, and a false origin however. Way to go ucla! way to go!
imense impact ...
It plays Crysis...
For some reason I didn't expect Jane to say that.
Um, 3dfx, how I miss thee, oh wait, internet, yeah, it's cool too....guess that IS what I make my living off of
Kinda wish for the old days of BBS' though, man those were fun!
man i don't know what i would do without the internet...porn
I could've sworn that Al Gore invented the internet...
YouPorn. God bless the net.
Pipes? Where's Them Thar Pipes at?
Must have been some awfully small pipes back then!
Utorrent! It's amazing how far the internet has come, it's really changed the face of the planet, our daily lives, it's impact is so great on human society.
Is this a tick or a treat ?
It gave us leeeeeeroy jenkins!!
To me, it's better than sliced bread!
As we all know, the internet is a series of tubes that can be filled with...porn
no credit to Al Gore? He invented the damned thing!
Happy B-Day Internet!
... chin-chin...
Who's the Walrus?
Wasn't the birthday on Thursday?
"On October 29, 1969, a message was successfully sent from the terminal in UCLA to the terminal in Stanford."
Happy Birthday "LO..."
There's no denying that the net (no pun intended) effect of the Internet in our world has been overwhelmingly positive. Never in the history of the world has so much information been available to so many people almost instantly. We may take it for granted now, but a research that 20 years ago would take weeks can be done in hours now. Not to mention the ability of literally millions of people to publish whatever crosses their minds to a potential audience of billions.
If you want to read the whole history of the Internet as told by "the people who made it happen", then don't miss "How the web was won". Absolutely the best article about the evolution of the Internet that I've come across. And a very engaging read too.
Lastly, if you want a good laugh and ever wondered how www.mcdonalds.com, www.bestbuy.com or www.pepsi.com looked like in 1996, go to: Internet '96. You won't regret it
great picture! love it
dont forget the joy of being rick rolled
YAY! *throws cakes around*
Sadly, the cake is a lie. Sorry, Internet. =(
40 years old?
i thought twas 300 years or more...
i only had a vic-20
after weeks of programming code, i got the star-trek game to work. kind of. no tools, no nuthin, me and my book of bunk code. as an after thought, a good friend was remembering with me, and when he told his high school aged sister(hot still) that computers could talk to each other over the phone lines now, she said "great, 2 star trek nerds talking about which episode is best, on their computers"
oboy what a prophet.
Whoopeee!