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- jackwaters, on 10/10/2007, -5/+11316 years of free porn.... God bless you Internet
- kilooneniner, on 10/10/2007, -1/+87God, can you imagine being Berners-Lee, looking at the web today. It's gotta be weird knowing you changed the entire world.
- meshman, on 10/10/2007, -2/+42"but continues operating on basically the same principles they established a quarter of a century ago."
B-b-but Web 2.0!!! - ScrumFritter, on 10/10/2007, -4/+31At 18 I'm at a point where I literally don't remember not having the ol' internet at my fingertips. I do remember times before Google searches, and fancy shmancy flash pages... but not NO internet at all.
Also, this man is indirectly responsible for lolcats. God bless this man! - clownguyx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26You just made me feel old.
"When I was a kid, we didn't have the internet..." - AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22Free porn, music piracy, no-strings-attached sex on CraigsList, the ability for there to be digg.com...this man is god.
- cusoman, on 10/10/2007, -17/+34Berners-Lee? I think you mean Al Gore.
- GothAlice, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18DARPA NET had porn longer than the WWW has been around.
- mpn401, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Tim Berners-Lee literally changed the world.
- notque, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15I started with BBS and a 300 baud modem. I was 11. The internet seemed a whole lot more thoughtful, intelligent, and community oriented back then.
- MikeonTV, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I agree...people just read blogs because they call themselves blogs. We should just be commenting at digg on wikipedia articles only.
- o0joshua0o, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Those were the "wild west" days of the Internet. You could make a website with literally anything on it back then.
- ngmcs8203, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Me too, and I'm only 25 in 1 week.
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Well, somewhat public. The only way I could get to it was as a University student and a government contractor.
- YouandWhoseArmy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Happy birthday Internet!
- brettmjohnson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Although the article was mostly accurate, the picture's caption is not. Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, not the Internet. Just to blow away another frequently held misconception, here is a screen shot of the first web browser [hint: it is not Mosaic]:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/WorldWideWeb_screenshot.gif - ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Hopefully this makes the front page before tomorrow...
- Raian, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Around '89 I started using BBS's on my good old 2400 baud modem... It was such a different experience to get out of the BBS style interface and into a browser. Back then the www was great-- and very uncommercial, it changed and grew at such a rapid pace. SO yea, I miss the good-ole-web, and I miss the days pre IM and pre Cell phone... but change happens.
- lazyrussian, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8well it is a stupid joke.
- superheroboy, on 10/10/2007, -9/+16I thought Al Gore invented the Internet. My world is crashing down around me!
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11I dugg it down because it was never funny, and it still isn't. It all stemmed from a misquote by a republican Wired columnist.. and then spread to mainstream news and to the public where it became one of those lame ass jokes that result from ignorance.
The truth is, Al Gore played a monumental role in legislation required to make the internet a public resource. We owe him a lot for the current state of world wide web. - stygiansonic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Yeah DARPANET/ARPANET was formed so that porn could still be reliably distributed in case of nuclear attack.
- computergod, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Yumm, hand coded ASCII porn.
- chris9902, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7and even then it was still 99% porn.
- Nanobe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Well, if you would answer Tim Berners-Lee, you'd be wrong. He didn't invent the Internet. He invented the Web. The Internet is much older than the Web.
- ChromaVita, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I'm in ScrubFritters boat. It's kind of crazy to think that we're pretty much the first generation to grow up always having had the internet...
(OK to be fair, i went 2 years without it, being born in 89... WORST 2 YEARS OF MY LIFE!) - ICSU, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I remember when 28.8k was a desired, unreachable speed.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Well it makes me angry because that "joke" of yours may very well have cost Al Gore his presidency, and put King George into power. The election was incredibly close, and whenever people though of Gore that joke ridiculed him and made him look like a pompous idiot. That's why it always bothers me when I see people making the joke to this day. 8 years of Bush has taken its toll.
- o0joshua0o, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8He didn't mean that he literally invented it. He meant that he enacted legislation that made it accessible to the public. See the "High Performance Computing and Communication Act" of 1991 (commonly referred to as "The Gore Bill")
- mal1964, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Aug 6 1991 spam and pop ups are qued up and in the ready position.
- Frozo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Like you just did?
- TenebrousX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+4Ditto. HappyPuppy was the coolest thing around back then, I had almost forgotten about it.
- meatmcguffin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"HappyPuppy"
Remembering that put the biggest smile on my face. Cheers! - mattmcm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Yottabytes of it.
- cusoman, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6How is it a result of ignorance when I made it knowing full well that it is just a joke, nothing more, nothing less. Never have I ever once believed that he "invented" it. Yes, we owe him a lot for it, but that doesn't mean we can't poke a little fun. Lighten up.
- ScottoGato, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5It's comments like those that upset manbearpig.
- xister, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You guys should really thank your lucky stars that you grew up with the 'net. I grew up in the country and had very little outside influences and hated it. If I would have had the internet, I would have had sooooo much more info to draw from to form my opinions and to shape my worldview.
- loconet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4And even after all this time people are confusing the World Wide Web and the Internet. They are not the same dammit!
- converge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I ran a BBS when 2400 bauds were the norm. When the 14.4k came out it was unbelievable at the time.
- bitterbug, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I used my first modem in 1980 at the age of 8 to connect to BBS's from my uncle's house. It was an amazing experience for a little kid to navigate this world of email, message threads, and (very very slow) downloads. It didn't take long to be proficient enough with the keyboard that you would have to sit and wait for the stuff you typed to be echoed back to you by the remote computer.
I called all over North America from PEI, Canada. One of my favorite places to call was a BBS in Arizona that had a few MC Escher images in it's download area. I fell asleep at the keyboard one night and it cost me 26 bucks in LD fees. :)
Then I heard about this "internet" thing while reading stuff on FidoNet (a network of BBS's intended to make it possible to message users on other BBS's. They would archive the days traffic and sync with each other late at night to minimize LD costs.) It sounded intriguing.
It wasn't until 1993 or 94 that I was able to use a friends university account and explore the world of Telnet, IRC, gopher, and the few web sites that were up at the time. What a change it was from the days of 300bps modems.
In ten years the Internet we know now will be ancient history, and something new will have taken its place. Good or bad, it's going to be a fun ride. - Tenlow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I also agree. That blog called "wired magazine" is lame. Since anything that's online with words that isnt wikipedia is a blog, wired articles are lame blog entries. Eh?
- paulisnotdead, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Happy birthday ... what the hell are you doing on digg?
- 256byteram, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Another interesting one is Gopher. It didn't take off in the same way the WWW did. Probably because it's based around a hierarchy and was more like a hypertext representation of FTP. There are still a few Gopher servers out there and most browsers still support the protocol.
- ravitek, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5i love my mother for giving birth to me on this fine day
its even better that my last name is tek - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Do you remember the time when webpages did not have flash adverts covering half the screen and you are trying so hard to find the goddam close button because it's so small and hidden and half the time it doesn't work and the other half you accidentally click the advert?
- bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Crowd != Community
- aahpandasrun, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I started using the internet in 1995. I was 11 year old. Aah what a time.
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