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."
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Not just Internet history (Score:5, Insightful)
Mechanical.
Computer.
Sheesh, what does it take to get your respect?
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:3, Insightful)
So your logic here is that if Microsoft didn't exist, Apple wouldn't have succeeded in popularizing the GUI because Apple only has 1.8% market share?
Except that 95% of the market share currently belongs to Microsoft. So if Microsoft had never existed, who would have that 95% of the market share?
Microsoft has never created a technology of note. Microsoft has never even popularized a technology of note. All Microsoft knows how to do is take technologies that other people have already invented and popularized and make lots of money off of them. That's not something they really recieve any creativity points for.
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:2, Insightful)
In your way the credit for Mona Lisa should go to the people who are making millions of copies and selling them instead of D'Vinci. Also then we need to give credit to people like Micheal Dell and Sam Walton since without them M$ would not be able to sel crap, so according to you they made the internet?
Thieves should be called thieves, dictators should be called dictators and copiers should be called copiers. What you suggest is making thieves creators.
Extraneous names and photos (Score:5, Insightful)
Not only that, but some names and photos are extraneous and have no relevence to Internet history whatsoever.
To wit, what do Bill Gates and Paul Allen have to do with the history of the Internet? Absolutely nothing. Neither of them innovated a single thing with respect to the Internet, indeed, the Internet blindsided them while they were busy trying to setup a Microsoft version of CompuServe embedded in the windows desktop. Hell, they're still trying, by dumbing down the Internet to CompuServe-esque levels and embedding it into their desktop in the form of a pansy candy-assed butterfly by the name of MSN.
Unless Bill Gates is going down as the End of the History of Internet, killed by his desktop monopoly and wide deployment of DRM (events which have yet to happen, and arguably may never occur), his presence, while perhaps relevant to the history of personal computing, certainly isn't with repect to the history of the 'net.
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:3, Insightful)
Funny, how is then that my Weiss 286-6 had EGA (gasp) and a NEC multisync II back then before windows? Maybe I was doing CAD? or even sharing 256 color porn? Ever hear of the Amiga or PC-Geos? I guess you believe that the MAC-OS is a clone of Windows..
Naaa It had to be Big Brother Bill, from whom all blessings flow:
O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
Re:Darn. (Score:4, Insightful)
Even Vinton Cerf (created IP, IIRC) went on record w/ "I'd like to clear up one little item - about the Vice President (Gore)
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:3, Insightful)
My own introduction to the Internet was on my old Macintosh LCII, nearly ten years ago. MS and IBM had little to do with that computer, as I recall. The first browser I used was Mosaic (well, the first graphical one--previously I fiddled with Lynx on my local BBS--to which I connected via telnet on my LCII).
As mentioned previously, MS was blindsided by the Internet and WWW. If any ONE entity was responsible for bringing it to the masses, my vote would go to American Academia, and more specifically, the chaps at Berkeley, who gave us BSD and, consequently, the variants thereof (on which ran and run a multitude of BBS's--I have yet to encounter one running on a MS platform, and if I did, I wouldn't linger there long). Students and researchers used the Internet and email, and of course these things slopped over from academic life to 'real' life.
If anything, MS has been a bane to the Internet, given their insecure OS, which opened the masses up to virus distribution, DDOS attacks, RPC thrillrides, etc., etc., etc.
Sometimes I wish they'd have just stuck with MS Bob...