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- PDubNYC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4How about the day the video of the chimp sniffing his finger and falling over hit the web? that's got my vote
- Anth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What?!? No AYBABTU? No Jeff K?
- wyngnut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What about porn? I suppose porn really isn't a moment, but a continuous force.
Why else would John/Jane Q. Public need (effectively) a T1 to their house? - obscurelyfamous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Uh huh.
Live 8 on AOL? What the hell is that? No mentions of online commerce (eBay), peer2peer is limited to Napster's shutting down, and instant messaging is overlooked?
Worst list ever made! - theonetruebix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"The Internet was not "born" 15 years ago. In 1984 the National Science Foundation constructed NFSNet. The first TCP/IP wide area network. Later Usenet and Bitnet merged. The Internet did not start with the World Wide Web."
Erm, well, technically you can trace the birth of the Internet back to 1969, when the first host-to-host connection was made between UCLA and SRI. October 25, in fact, making me exactly as old as the Internet. - pixas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+215 years old aye... So in 3 years the Internet can start making it's own porn. How 'bout that...
- essrog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Weak list, and fails to mention peanut butter jelly time
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"I thought that was Al Gore."
Seriously, how long is this lame Republican-promoted BS lie going to keep going as a "joke"?
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp - dominolover, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where the hell were eBay and Amazon....things that have changed the way people shop forever!!!
- buddylee415, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree with WiFi, file sharing, and Google. What about FireFox (changed the way I operate online in such a huge way) or at least open source? I agree that ebay or Amazon were needed on the list too.
- Fly1m1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This is crap....CNN knows tech like y'all know chicks!
Later nerds! - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@anthony522:
Read the Snopes.
It's a perfectly legitimate statement, because it is true. The legistlation he pushed through as a senator was responsible for the regulatory environment necessary for the internet to move from specialized research network to public infrastructure.
Quote from Snopes, for people that don't feel like reading the whole thing:
"...Gore was popularizing the term "information superhighway" in the early 1990s (although he did not, as is often claimed by others, coin the phrase himself) when few people outside academia or the computer/defense industries had heard of the Internet, and he sponsored the 1988 National High-Performance Computer Act (which established a national computing plan and helped link universities and libraries via a shared network) and cosponsored the Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992 (which opened the Internet to commercial traffic).
In May 2005, the organizers of the Webby Awards for online achievements honored Al Gore with a lifetime achievement award for three decades of contributions to the Internet. "He is indeed due some thanks and consideration for his early contributions," said Vint Cerf." - Arokh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What?! No hampster dance?!
- wvwwvv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lame list.
- Morph_Ball, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"10 ten web moments? How about you proofread before hitting submit?"
He just wanted to get the point across, that's all. It's 10, man. Ten. - mrops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wrong choice of options. I think "Napster" Starts would have got a lot more hits than "Napster" shuts down.
Napster was truly a web revolution, even though not a legal one, but a revolution none the less. - hanshasuro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yea, I gotta agree. This list was poor.
- jhaven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1no g0atse or tubgirl?
- puggy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Stumbled upon pics of Aria Giovanni. I guess it's one of those moments.
- relativesanity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this got on the front page how?
- Kirkus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Brought to you by the department of redundancy department
- brian501, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1no ebay? no amazon? what about yahoo? really lead the way in catagorizing web content.
google is definetnly #1. - mojo2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1highly random list. anyone can come up with equally "relevant" list.
- furdine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wtf is this? "Moments"? Do they know what the word means? Is Google a moment?
- IamColin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ummm wheres goatsee?
- thekak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lame. Half that stuff isnt even really web.
- spoid_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Heh, 404 people dug this...
- clownguyx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I always thought Juno was more significant then Hotmail...it allowed people without just a PC and modem, but with no internet access, to send/receive free e-mail using a dialup connection.
- burnboom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Agree with Mojo et al., lots of other interesting moments to include, although Hotmail rates pretty high as an outreach to the 'baseline humans', at least from an international perspective. Gmail is cool but come on, in this context it's just vaster storage space and some flair. (and yeah, wyngnut has a point too)
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0«With Berners-Lee's "http protocol," ..»
yay for acronym redundancy. - zarand, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can't believe that I wasted twenty seconds reading that. NO mention whatsoever of early technologies. The whole thing was just a bunch of pop culture things that happened to show up at the right time.
Worst...list...ever... - larssg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Weird title for this item, though...
- drumerboy07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love that google was the top thing on the list, once again proving the Google is the coolest thing sense sliced bread.
- p014k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very poor list. Cnn did a very bad job.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Boo-urns. Hampsterdance, Firefox, Flash, etc, etc, etc was far more interesting than crappy streams and lo-res photos of the Indian Ocean Tsunami and 9/11. I have a TV for those.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@fredgarvin1138
It's not about a thicker skin, or Democrats or whatever. For the record, I'm not a Democrat. I just get sick of stupid people. When questions as important as who will sit in the Oval Office are determined by half-awake voters who don't bother to check what they hear on Leno or Letterman, we all lose.
For that matter, I hate all the "Bush is dumb" or "Bush did drugs" jokes, too. But as far as the Al Gore jokes go, it's one thing to joke about him being wooden or getting fat or whatever. It's another to keep spreading the idea that the Vice President of our country would claim to have invented the internet.
I have a thick enough skin, enough that I don't mind if people think I'm being silly for caring about something like this. The reason this falsehood bothers me is that it was first spread maliciously, as a cynical political ploy, and spreading it only encourages more crap like that in the future. - readparse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What a dumb list. Skype, for crying out loud? Aren't they an INFANT? I've never even installed the stuff, and I'm a reasonably well connected guy. I would be much more likely to say that AOL Instant Messenger has made a significant impact on the web, so I would say that the day they opened up their instant messaging to the general public is right up there.
Live 8 on AOL... jeez, who made this list? Golly.
WiFi hotspots. No words.
The only decent entries on the list are Monica Lewinsky, which was the first very large story that the Internet (specifically Drudge) had a key role in. More of an internet journalism story than an Internet story, though.
9/11 is an understandable entry, because it was the first super-duper-major internet story that the public just couldn't get enough information about.
OK, the rest of the list isn't really worth more of my time. Stupid, stupid list. - chiefcrazytalk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0google significant? Sure, there stock is through the roof. But without google we would be searching with yahoo (like we used to), without gmail we would have hotmail, without google maps we would have mapquest. Hardly an indespensible our groundbreaking service.
- sexualpotatoes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what a joke of a list everytime I read/watch something from mainstream media talk about something i have any knowledge in i always walk feeling the author has failed to do even basic research. They would of been better off going to wikipedia even. CNN + MSNBC + FOX all suck equally
- pingviini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not sure, but was unix developed before, or after the internet. Because, without unix/linux, not only would you not have perl, but what would the servers be running.
Just throwing out the flame bait. - mojo2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0blablabla
- wwwhatsup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Unutterably lame.
#1 had to be Netscape, the first widely available graphic browser.
#2 realaudio - the first streaming media
The first viral video that I can recall was a clip of them trying to blow up a whale.
The first band site was The Beastie Boys run, for some reason I've never understood, out of the Raleigh News and Observer.
The first widely downloaded music mp3 was by the Butthole Surfers.
The introduction of shockwave (aka Flash) definitely sent shockwaves round the web.
Then CSS revolutionized layout.
PHP did in perl.
Stuff like IM, skype isn't even WWW, eh?
- AuLKenny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol google is really kicking ass
- tellall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is perhaps the lamest, most banal thing i have ever read. thank you, digg.
- joelp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can't believe I got a -2 comment score for my "I thought that was Al Gore." comment.
lighten up kids... i was kidding.
We all know it was Oprah Winfrey. This time I'm serious. - theDrizzle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why on earth did they let CNN do it. they set it up for google to win, geez. and why the ***** is that stupid live 8 garbage on there...stupid liberal bull crap agenda...
- Griffen37, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, missing so much. How about birth of HTML, or Java for that matter. Anyone remember watching the Pepsi logo rotate without having to reload the page. That was amazing, though it really taxed my 9600 baud modem. I upgraded to the 14.4 right quick when that happened.
- Spacegoat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The only way I'd accept Hotmail on the list would be as the catalyst to spam. Napster goes offline? How about when Napster went online? And what about "All your base are belong to us"?
- duodave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You know, you can't distill the internet to an arbitrary number of events one person thinks are signifigant. The internet has evolved over the years through thousands of tiny steps, and thousands of others combined the achievements of others. Where would digg be without css or javascript or php? Where would any of us be without cable, dsl or even (gasp) the archaic ISDN? More interesting would be a timeline of internet developments. Is there such a thing?
- Oxygen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Arn't we forgetting a little someone called: "Leeroy Jenkins"
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