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."
Linus (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Linus (Score:5, Funny)
BTW, where is the goatse guy?
Re:Linus (Score:5, Funny)
Well, hopefully it will lead someone to post some good ones of Natalie Portman covered in hot grits. That's one picture that would be modded +5 informative so fast Slashdot would Slashdot itself.
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!
He didn't make it.... (Score:2, Funny)
He was kicked out of the clubhouse for making an ass of himself...
Re:Linus (Score:5, Funny)
don't worry, someone will post the entire... uh... text.
nevermind.
Re:Linus (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Linus (Score:2)
Re:Linus (Score:2)
Ok, howabout pictures and text [wikipedia.org] albeit with only a standard Linus photo.
Don't all rush to add your own names
Sure, but has anyone else noticed... (Score:2)
Re:Linus (Score:3)
I remember the original IMPs (Score:5, Informative)
I've even seen a Pluribus IMP in operation.
Darn. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Darn. (Score:5, Funny)
I hope you're happy.
Re:Darn. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Darn. (Score:5, Funny)
*Looks at photo*
Hmmm.. and if you don't mind me asking, what exactly was he doing down there??
Re:Darn. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Darn. (Score:5, Interesting)
I apologize from any resulting cognitive dissonance and you may now return to listening to Rush.
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.
Re:Darn. (Score:3, Funny)
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)
But surely, according to SCO... (Score:5, Funny)
Wait
Re:But surely, according to SCO... (Score:5, Funny)
the shirtless pic of linus with beer .... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:the shirtless pic of linus with beer .... (Score:2)
"...it's 2 a.m. - do you know whose software is running on your firewall ?"
Re:the shirtless pic of linus with beer .... (Score:2)
If you're going to get a beer company to sponsor you, at least get one that makes real beer.
Re:the shirtless pic of linus with beer .... (Score:2)
Re:the shirtless pic of linus with beer .... (Score:2)
didn't know... (Score:3, Funny)
--krahd
MOD PARENT UP (Score:2)
Linus, Linus, Linus..tsk tsk tsk.. (Score:2, Funny)
-shakes head dishonorably-
Re:Linus, Linus, Linus..tsk tsk tsk.. (Score:3, Funny)
What? You expected him to chug the whole six-pack?
Not just Internet history (Score:2, Funny)
"Pictures of people who have made a mark in any of the following: programmable computer systems, computer networks, the Internet or the security involved with those systems."
I don't recall Charles Babbage [wbglinks.net] contributing to the internet.
Re:Not just Internet history (Score:2)
"Pictures of people who have made a mark in any of the following: programmable computer systems, computer networks, the Internet or the security involved with those systems."
I don't recall Charles Babbage contributing to the internet.
I believe he contributed to "programmable computer systems".
-a
Re:Not just Internet history (Score:5, Insightful)
Mechanical.
Computer.
Sheesh, what does it take to get your respect?
Re:Not just Internet history (Score:2)
Got back to Logic Programming 101 or whatever.
Slow links in post (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.mysticunderground.net/mirror/ [mysticunderground.net]
Re:Slow links in post (Score:2)
Naked Linus (Score:2, Funny)
Who would have thought... (Score:5, Funny)
I Kid! (Besides, I'm working tonight and I feel Christmas fat settling on me even as I type)
Hmm.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmm.... (Score:2)
http://andrewhitchcock.org/gallery/ballmer/ [andrewhitchcock.org]
Also, be sure to check out my sig, Allen is in there too
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PS: Sorry about the whorage.
Re:Hmm.... (Score:2)
Re:Hmm.... (Score:2)
Ut-oh (Score:5, Funny)
Oh boy...
Linus Naked (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Linus Naked (Score:2)
Well we now know which
Mmm Free Beer (Score:2, Funny)
What the Hell? (Score:5, Interesting)
And what's with the rainbow? hmmm...?
(posted from a powerbook, you zealots!)
Linus naked? (Score:5, Funny)
Mmmm. Geek porn [geekporn.com].
Re:Linus naked? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Linus naked? (Score:2)
Camwhores, ie. greedy girls with wigs and makeup and the "contrast" slider turned all the way up to hide their teenage acne.
God, I'm going to be sick now.
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: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
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:Gates and Allen (Score:2)
Thanks for clearing it up for me - I will go back to believing that Microsoft is a black hole of tech. :)
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:2)
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:3, Interesting)
what have they EVER contributed to the net
How about massive acceptation? The internet has been around since 1969 or so, but with the developments in cheap hardware (thanks to IBM and Microsoft) and an easy to use operating system (again Microsoft), the internet had the environment to grow and become massively accepted by non-technical people. This acceptation then led to a faster, cheaper and bigger internet. The one we now use. Don't think too technical, social developments count too in 'The History of
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, m
Re:Gates and Allen (Score:5, Insightful)
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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 popu
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 fl
One important missing image (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Others (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Missing names (and photos) (Score:2, Informative)
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.
Unfortunate omission (Score:5, Funny)
huh (Score:2, Funny)
Why are they all so pasty ? (Score:2, Funny)
Aren't they getting enough Sun ?
At least Rusty is trying to ... although I'm not sure the "open source is better code" idea works after a few beers.
Outside hacking with beer [wbglinks.net] Outside hacking with beer again [wbglinks.net]
Hmmmmmm, Coopers Beer [coopers.com.au]. Thoroughly recommend the Pale (green label), Sparkling (red label) not too bad either. Fortunatley it's made where I come from (as does Rusty), so it is always fresh (can't speak for Rusty though, never met him - I did hear he got married a while back, so he may not be as fres
rhymes with... (Score:3, Funny)
good thing he didn't grow up in an english speaking country
Linus naked and drinking beer (Score:2)
Linus (Score:5, Funny)
I think I had a freudian click.
What about those guys in the CoCo3 ROM? (Score:2)
Ctrl-Alt-Reset [geocities.com]
ewwww (Score:2, Funny)
Beer, Photos, and Linus (Score:5, Interesting)
Back in '98 or so, my best friend Brian politely informed me that his employer at the time was footing the bill for him to fly out to LinuxWorld Expo for 3 days. Not a bad gig. This made me a bit jealous, of course, so I made a bet with him. I bet him $50 that he could not come away from the conference with a photo of him and Linus having a beer. See, Bri is painfully shy. The odds of him running into (let alone introducing himself to!) Linus were pretty damn low, I figured. Hahaaa, an easy $50, I figured. Sucker!
So Bri gets on the plane and leaves....Days went by, and I heard nothing. Of course, this meant I could (in my infinite wisdom) run out and immediately spend $50, because he was obviously going to return from the conference empty-handed. Ch-ching, -$50.00...(I think it was on something totally meaningful, like a spool of CD-Rs.)
A couple days later, I get a call from Brian. Snickering like a friggin hyena.
(bbRRRrrrring....bbRRRrrrriing..) (*click*)
Me: Hello?
Brian: (...silence...) (*snicker*)
Me: Hellloooo.....?
Brian: (*snicker*)...Hey...(*snicker*)
Me: Oh! Hey man! How was your trip?
Brian: (..silence...)....*snicker*... Y..Y-YOU OWE ME FIFTY BUCKS!! (*snicker*) PAY UP, BITCH!!!!
Me:
Brain: OOOH YEAAH, PAY UP BITCH!!!
The consumate programmer that he is, Brian figures out a way to do it. That son of a bitch intentionally got drunk, and drunk enough to work up the courage to pull it off...He spots Linus, and immediately buys two big frothy glasses of beer. He walks over to him, and asks Linus if he can have his picture taken with him. Linus kindly obliges. "Here, hold this", Bri says, and hands one of the beers to Linus. Bri hands his camera off to a passer-by who snaps the photo. Picture perfect. There's Bri, theres Linus, and they're both holding a tall 'n frosty one. And it's a good picture. Son of a bitch!
Ch-ChinG! another -$50.00...
No goatsex? (Score:3, Funny)
[pause]
Wait a second...! OH MY GOD!!!
Linus Penguin? (Score:2)
Kernel maintainer drunk and half-naked (Score:2, Funny)
one [conectiva.com.br] and
two [conectiva.com.br].
slashdotted! (Score:5, Informative)
Check the mirrors folks its a good site!
Sorry to wbglinks.net!!!
Slashdotted, heres a copy (Score:2)
Joking aside... It appears someone pulled all content at this time, judging from http://www.wbglinks.net/ [wbglinks.net]
Sigh... seems anything interesting on the Internet done by someone without a bandwidth budget gets blown to bits. But ah, yes, the site is completely down.
That's nice... (Score:2, Funny)
Couldn't resist...had to look....garrrhhh.... (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot notification service (Score:2)
Developers: Savannah Back Online With Extra Security
depesz writes "As we can read here, savannah is back online. After several weeks of downtime, all security problems are resolved, and the service is again operational."
Cool. So can you post a notice when the server in this story is back up, too?
Yep, he's naked but it ain't beer he's drinking (Score:2)
wow! baby pictures of the world-famous ... (Score:2)
Is this the beer photo? (Score:2)
Re:Mirror? (Score:2)
Re:hey! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:hey! (Score:2)
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:Bill Gates and internet history? (Score:2)
Re:Bill Gates and internet history? (Score:2)
You're being too hard on yourself - Windblows 1.0 was announced in 1983.
Re:Bill Gates and internet history? (Score:2)
Ahh.... this explains Lantastic(sp)... that crazy thing that was just fantastic(sic).
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 institution
Re:Broken server (Score:2)