Internet History In Pictures 288
prostoalex writes "Tired of reading black-on-white text on Internet history and its celebrities? The Faces in front of the Monitors features the Internet history in pictures. See the legendary BBN IMP team, Linus naked and drinking beer, Bill Gates and Paul Allen and other luminaries."
I remember the original IMPs (Score:5, Informative)
I've even seen a Pluribus IMP in operation.
Slow links in post (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.mysticunderground.net/mirror/ [mysticunderground.net]
Gates and Allen (Score:2, Informative)
Did m$ design any of the core net protocols? Dns? bgp? smtp? nntp? http?
I didnt think so, and their contributions to the net are little to nothing.
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:1, Informative)
Mouse pointers, windows, taskbars, widgets, buttons, sliders, all the things you use invisibly but do not notice from day to day you can thank Gates for popularising
Despite his bad points (and he has many) you can't go past the good he's done.
One important missing image (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:3, Informative)
6. Security
DHCP currently provides no authentication or security mechanisms Potential exposures to attack are discussed is section 7 of protocol specification [1].
This lack of authentication mechanism means that a DHCP server check if a client or user is authorized to use a given User Class This introduces an obvious vulnerability when using the User option. For example, if the User Class is used to give out a parameter (e.g., a particular database server), there is no way authenticate a client and it is therefore impossible to check if client is authorized to use this parameter
Sounds like Microsoft...
Missing names (and photos) (Score:5, Informative)
I'd suggest John Romkey (author of PC/IP and one of the two original Internet toasters), Phil Karn (KA9Q), Louis Pouzin (I probably misspelled that), Don Davies. Mike St. Johns, Jake Feinler, Bob Braden, Milo, Jun Murai, Marshall Rose, Dave Mills, Dave Farber, Dave Clark, Jerry Saltzer, Noel Chiappa, Steve Casner, Dan Lynch, Radia Pearlman
Carl Malamud's 1992 book, "Exploring the Internet" has a lot of anecdotes and a few photos.
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:1, Informative)
With a 1.8% market share, Apple isn't going to popularise a THING
Others (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Bill Gates and internet history? (Score:5, Informative)
TOTAL BULLSHIT. Bill Gates had nothing to do with the creation of NetBIOS. The NetBIOS interface was developed by Sytec Inc. (now Hughes LAN Systems) for International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1983. The original version of Windows, released in November 1983, had no network support. Microsoft didn't even provide integrated network support in Windows until the release of Windows for Workgroups in October 1992. Before the release of Windows for Workgroups you had to use non-Microsoft network protocol software to network Windows boxes.
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Missing names (and photos) (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:5, Informative)
I got in an argument with a windows adminstrator at work a few years ago about this. He'd always tell me how wonderful Microsoft is and cite things that had nothing to do with MS. One day I told him I was taking away their DHCP server because they weren't doing much with it and we needed to use it for the Unix servers. He told me that Windows would do it better because DHCP is a Microsoft invention. I pointed him to the standard and asked him to show me the word ``Microsoft.'' Nothing, of course.
This particular RFC (3004) you're referencing is regards to a new option to be added to DHCP. That they'll extend a protocol is not news.
Re:Darn. (Score:5, Informative)
This is not even close to the apples to oranges comparison you tried to accomplish. Oh, well it is not like ignorance ever stopped anyone from posting on slashdot.
slashdotted! (Score:5, Informative)
Check the mirrors folks its a good site!
Sorry to wbglinks.net!!!
Re:Bill Gates and internet history? (Score:3, Informative)
He pretended it didn't exist...
"He" wasn't the only one. Someone else already pointed out that your claim that Microsoft invented NetBIOS is incorrect. I'll point out that several other important protocols came to be without considering the Internet.
SNA would be the first on my list of important network systems. IBM created it to provide reliable networking in mainframe, and later minicomputer, environments. Have no doubt about it's importance; for many of the most significant financial institutions in the world there was simply no alternative.
IPX would be next on my list. For most of the corporate world, IPX was their first encounter with LANs. It's heritage is traced back to Xerox. Very large corporate networks have been created based on IPX.
NetBIOS, and other useless products like WINS... Abandoned them after 2001, when he found out the Internet could exist inspite of MS.
NetBIOS hasn't been abandoned. It's alive and well. CIFS is how Microsoft has repackaged most the old Windows network protocols for the Internet. It's hard to say this and mean it, however. It's hard to even define NetBIOS. It's part API, part protocol... what it isn't is abandoned.
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Linus (Score:3, Informative)
for the 5 billionth time: it's not goatse, it's goatse.cx: it's a joke, pronounced like "goatsex", and if you don't pronounce it that way, the joke is lost.
yes, that's right, a goatse.cx post that's +1 informative!
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:1, Informative)
http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/
LOL! (Score:1, Informative)
Re:/.ed and proud of it! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Linus (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/
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The Page 3 girls are the best !!!
Merry Christmas to you all