Remembering 50 Years of (and Leading Up To) the Internet 78
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."
Re:Um they missed something important.... (Score:3, Interesting)
No kidding!
I'm sure the article is great and wonderful, but I made a decision a few months ago to no longer bother with any site that splits their
articles
needlessly
across
multiple
pages.
Original HTTP deamon developed by NCSA... (Score:3, Interesting)
The article says that Apache "succeeded the HTTP daemon developed by Rob McCool in the 70s".
Surely they mean the 90s, when the HTTP protocol was invented?
(The statement is backed by a reference to The Telecommunications Illustrated Dictionary which also says he developed it in the 1970s...)