Happy Birthday, Internet! 213
NobodyExpects writes "I'd like to wish a happy birthday to the Internet! Today marks its 40th birthday!
In fall 1969, computers sending data between two California universities set the stage for the Internet, which became a household word in the 1990s. On September 2nd 1969, in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, two computers passed test data through a 15-foot gray cable. Stanford Research Institute joined the fledgling ARPANET network a month later; UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah joined by years end, and the internet was born."
Re:Looking forward... (Score:2, Funny)
Apple 2?
Gosh, that was out of the question back then - too expensive.
15 foot? (Score:4, Funny)
Presents (Score:5, Funny)
happy b-day (Score:5, Funny)
They got started young back in the day.... (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently Al Gore had his first child at the age of 21 ;)
And one hour later... (Score:4, Funny)
the first spam e-mail was sent.
Re:happy b-day (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And one hour later... (Score:3, Funny)
Now it is a small box... (Score:2, Funny)
watched over by the Elders of the Internet [youtube.com]
Re:Looking forward... (Score:5, Funny)
"There's some heavy handed "Get off my lawn"-ness going on in the article itself."
Quit yer whinin', you young punk. When we moved out of the caves, we had to WALK to the next village to get our packets!! Now get back out into the street where you belong, you're crushing my grass.
Re:Presents (Score:4, Funny)
I hear the internet wants a pony.
The Internet is 40, not 4. It's not a pony it wants, but a Mustang [wikipedia.org].
It also wants you off its lawn.
Re:They got started young back in the day.... (Score:3, Funny)
>>>Gore said, "...I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
That's quite a trick considering the net was created in 1969, and Al Gore did not join the Congress until 1977. Maybe he borrowed an Omni from Time Voyager Phineas Bogg and zipped back to the 1960s.
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Re:When did ARPAnet become "internet" (Score:2, Funny)