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- Shaunt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+52Al Gore was born on March 31, 1948. Marked as inaccurate.
- Crumbeast, on 10/12/2007, -6/+46Wrong. The internet wasn't born, it was invented. By Al Gore. Buried innacurate.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36Ahh, who knew it would ever lead to crap like MySpace.
- hexx54, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36and on a second note, birth to what we like to call...porn
- TheBritishGuy1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35Happy birthday Internet!
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Soon we'll get Internet warming because the tubes are clogged causing the massive amounts of material to block out the hot air from all the servers creating a greenhouse effect.
- Sagags, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21you are offically the oldest person on the internet
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Chuck Norris doesn't use the Internet
He just stares down a computer until it gives him the information he wants - LordSkywalker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"There's a new phenomenon you may have heard of called, Internet."
- finista, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Internet? Is that thing still around?
- HAKdragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Oh, they have the internet on computers now!
- Rayor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12@hexx54
More accurately, the birth of widely available, easy to access porn. - kingygk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Kids I used to use telnet back in the old days and loved it. Unix talk was a lot better than aim too. You could see your friend typing to you in real time. When I first got on the net back in 92 I was on a 9600baud modem ha. Then 6 months later the 14.4ks came out and I was happy to pay 250 bucks for it! 6 months later the 33.6ks came out than then I finally got a 56k modem. It sucked though. I would only connect at 33.1k :) 1999 was a great year I spend 300 for my first cable modem and never went back to dial up. Thank God for those Tubes :)
- cptn_cardboard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9*****, now I gotta make a cake...
- Chaos12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Im extactic to know I share my birthday with my favorite thing!
- bigpete591, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Do you guys realize how amazing an invention the Internet truly is? For the first time in history, humans can instantly communicate with each other in a global network of information. Could the internet be the required catalyst for the human species to evolve?
- hadak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Isn't that the thingie made of tubes? Like in mario?
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7telegraph (lightspeed)
telephone(lightspeed)
some pretty fast comunication back in the day - caution, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5(sung to the tune of the "Happy Birthday Song")
Happy Birthday to you.
You series of tubes.
You give us some porno.
And Al Gore made you.
/ I just realized how bad that is, but I'll hit submit anyway. - redlemon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5so do i! but digg me down because that's not cool :(
- jamesvaughn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There is an enjoyable, informative book called "History of the Internet, Since 1843." Basically starts with the telegraph, the first coded electronic network.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4umm internet sends data as bits, it's the computer hardware and software that interprets these bits.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I blame the arpanet
- commiecat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Telnet? What about BBS? :) I had a *300* baud modem on my Atari 800XL. And, like you, the minute broadband was available in my area I had it installed and haven't looked back. How many Diggers have ever experienced a chat where you could see each character in a sentence printed individually instead of as a complete line? H--e--y--,----w--a--n--n--a----h--o--t--c--h--a--t--?
Happy birthday Internet! I love the way things are now but part of me is kinda sad that many BBSs became ISPs (e.g. AOL) or disappeared entirely. The ratio of idiots on the 'net has probably been the same throughout, but there was a time when there were far fewer people using it and consequently you'd run into far fewer idiots.
I know Digg is a more-likely place to encounter old-schoolers but if any of you ever used a BBS or want to know what they were like, there's a great documentary here:
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
Please don't assume this to be spam or comment abuse. The documentary really details what things were like before web browsers and the director released it under Creative Commons so many of the segments are legally available in digital format. - SSCrow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So, Who is going to buy the Cake?
You can;t celebrate a Birthday without Cake. - entropea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The idea for the internet was born about a year earlier than this as a result of a series of technical glitches interpreted by people in the war room at the Pentagon as a missile launch by the Soviet Union on the United States.
When it became clear in those frantic hours that the sensors used to detect and verify missile launches in the Soviet Union were not linked together, it created a problem that needed to be resolved quickly.
The Department of Defense Advance Research Projects Agency was handed the problem to solve, and a grad student from MIT named Robert Kahn was hired to work on the problem. When it became clear that the connecting the various sensors was beyond his skill level, budget and way beyond the timeline needed to solve the problem, he conceived of a method to tap into the minds of bright computer science students around the country to help solve the problem. The RFC process was conceived to overcome these resource constraints. It is probably the first iteration of what we now call "open source engineering."
So, while April 7 might be a good day to mark this occasion, I think the real genesis of the Net was a year or two earlier with the problem presenting itself in bold relief.
(Sources for this anecdote include a first-hand witness who cannot be named, Robert Kahn and his former employer at ARPA during interviews in 1996). - thelonious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've always thought 09/02/1969 was the birth of the Internet. Years ago, I remember finding and printing out a sketch of "it" on a piece of paper that had this date written on it. I need to look for it, but a quick Google pulls up this:
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199908/msg00058.html
Personally, I'll stick to thinking of the birth of the Internet as 09/02... because I was born that day as well though. :) - ClayDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2BTW, the RFC that started it all is RFC 1.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1 - kingygk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7God bless America for inventing the Internet :)
- loganhid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i heard theres rumours going around on the internetS
- Eccles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm old enough that the first modem I ever used was acoustic. That is, you took the handset -- rented from the (one and only) phone company -- and plugged it into a box with these rubber surrounds, one with a microphone, one with a speaker. That unit plugged into a terminal.
Thanks for making me feel old... - wakeupmrfox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Which one??
- skyfire1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Al Gore said he invented the internet. Do some research.
- kingygk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@ sagags That honor would have to go to Vint cerf and his work buddies. They invented the Internet. Vint is much older than I :)
- msauers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone notice that the article is dated tomorrow?
- Eccles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Incidentally, back in the pre-WWW days (although TBL probably already was working on his approach), I solicited a project for a software engineering class where the plan was for a superfinger command, which would allow users to make files available across the internet in a manner somewhat similar to HTTP. If I'd just been familiar with the hypertext concept, perhaps the Queen would have knighted me instead of TBL! Sob!
- twodayslate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mark it on your calenders people, April 7th is my Birthday.
Ooh sha! - omnirusa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3But clearly god created the internet there for it has always existed.
/poke christians - jordanlund, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No love for February 1, 1980? Birth of the IEEE 802 standards?
- sillywampa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you're referring to Talk? I loved using talk.
And you can see when another user was on using Finger. I liked to finger other users on the network. (wait, did that sound dirty?) - sillywampa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@chaos12
Seriously? Happy Bday then.
@m4tt3r
Playboy channel and Spice weren't around before 1969. However, Playboy magazine, penthouse, and theaters with lots of sweaty skeevy men masturbating were. - tobikow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i was told that the first group of networked computers was in Los Alamos, New mexico, where they have an intresting little museum dedicated to the internet.
- darkzeroman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2so do I. Happy birthday to you, TheNivek in 24 more hours.
- nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -8/+7well.... there was porn before the internet, the internet really invented pron.
- M4tt3r, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3nreynolds is right, don't know why he's being dugg down. Porn did exist before internet porn, anyone ever heard of the Playboy channel or Spice?
I know I have. :) - Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I thought telnet was for muds
- kingygk, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6Cool a month before I was born. 69 was a great year. :)
- Sagags, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4I hope one day I can use the internet, and see what its like!
- cptn_cardboard, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2What the ***** is the internet?
- razrielle, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4gah sorry, beaten by crumbeast
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