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- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+63Time to clog those tubes in celebration!
- falloutsyndrome, on 10/12/2007, -5/+47Fire up bittorent its time to celebrate
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30This is the WorldWideWeb's birthday, not the internet's.
- oreo2123, on 10/12/2007, -6/+26people are never going to stop making the tube joke are they?? I bet we will be celebrating the 15th birthday of that damn joke...digg me down people, but let the joke go, please!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22FW: RE: FW: FW: FW: FW: RE: FW:FW: RE: FW: FW: FW: FW: RE: FW:FW: RE: FW: FW: FW: FW: RE: FW:FW: RE: FW: FW: FW: FW: RE: FW:FW: RE: FW: FW: FW: FW: RE: FW:FW: RE: FW: FW: FW: FW: RE: FW:
Due to 15 years of operation, the tubes of the interent have gotten clogged. To fix this, ICANN has declared that on August 7th the tubes will be cleaned out.
They recommend to:
1.unplug your computer
2. Disconnect internet cables.
If you use your computer during this time it will most likely be fried.
Please forward this to everybody you know. - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21I would say the opposite. The internet is a monumental social system..
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21But Gore did champion the creation of the Internet and did fight for its continued funding and development so his taking credit for it was exactly right. (The right-wing spin was that he was trying to lay claim to having invented the whole thing; only people who didn't see the comment in context bought that lie.) Whenever people question that, I love to pull out my copy of Where Wizards Stay up Late which chronicles the early days of DARPA. In the end of the book, the authors recount how DARPA had a 25th anniversary reunion of those involved. It was not open to everyone and they extended invitations only to those they saw as instrumental in keeping their work alive. Gore was invited.
In the words of Bill Hicks: end... of... *****... discussion. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17It was only a small series of tubes then, about the diameter of a toilet roll.
- Sukino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Wow
Looks better than my space 2006. - iamdravenman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Isn't it Sir Tim Berners-Lee? Or was he "just" a Nobel winner?
- noneloud, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i
There. 15 Candles! Woot! Happy Birthday :-D - judderman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Here is a picture of the first web-browser/editor http://www.einfach-fuer-alle.de/artikel/linearisierung/timblsdesktop.gif
- Jowitz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8While giving millions of others new and exciting ways to make one.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9i am so tired of that myth. it was just a smear story by a wired.com journalist - and was spread by the general media - who has since been fired and wired has recently apologized for the damage that was done to gore's campaign.
- Alegis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Too bad that was yesterday. Oh well I'm always late with bdays anyways.
- Akram, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I'm pretty sure hes a Sir now. Bill Gates got knighted, but because hes foreign he can't go around using the title Sir.
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7First they miss Nikola Tesla's 150th birthday, then they miss the web's 15th.
Google needs to get with it! - LegendarySock, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Here's to 15 years of internet pornography!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Anything is better than the painful way that TV people would say website addresses in the mid 90s.
h... t... t... p... colon... slash... slash ... double you... double you... double you... DOT...
it was really painful. - inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12Yeah, but expect to be buried for that. Everyone seems to enjoy elevating him to some kind of messiah status, but Berners-Lee just conceived a new way to implement a lot of preexisting concepts. He didn't really invent anything per se. It's a little like giving Steve Jobs credit for inventing the GUI. Both took preexisting ideas and saw how they could be used in an amazing new way. Kudos to Berners-Lee. He's brilliant, but anyone who says anything short of him fully inventing it all will be modded down by all the kiddies out there who don't realize that the Internet existed before the Web.
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Happy birthday Internet? No... not at all. The WWW != the Internet. Repeat that 10x. (then maybe a couple dozen more)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web - Paroparo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8That's just a slander-misquote invented by the Republicans. People find the claim amusing, so it never seems to die out.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8It's people like you i440 who make the Internet such a bad place.
Here's to the upcoming spam filtering technologies to remove you from our sight forever. - kubudubudubuntu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7one of the most important events of all times! =) digg
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I think the last sentence is more belated than the birthday greeting. Too late!
- Galaxion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Really? I thought that when The Queen gave Gates his honorary knighthood she told him she'd never used a computer...
- gridrunner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4the world wide web? it'll never take off...
i do wish addresses started with three letters of fewer syllables though. it's a bit of a mouthful. - Kamael, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Can anyone send me this whole internet thing to my email?
- Hurricane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3WWWW?
whats the 4th W for??? - MoofTheStoof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wonder if the original source is still around? Maybe see if they could get it to run under the current version of NeXTSTEP? Not that we need anymore browsers...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Al Gore invented manbearpig and global warming. He's a renaissance man.
- jtjenn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So what do people actually do without WWW when they invented the internet?
- that1jewishguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i
- Nobi-Wan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Whoa whoa whoa...I thought Al Gore invented the internets?
- Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@h00paj00 - I still hear the double you double you double you dot. And it's a piece of cake to redirect the www subdomain to the actual domain: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2004/04/12/rewritingurlsforgoogle.html
Celebrate this day by dropping the www subdomain :-D. - bobthedino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's a shame CERN hasn't made sure that the web server in Tim's alt.hypertext posting still works: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
Or maybe that's just unwarranted sentimentality...! - jag164, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2People. People. Many of you have this distinction problem that I'm seeing. The WWW is not the internet. The internet is not the WWW. The Web is 15 years old, but the internet is 30+ years old. Heck, even Queen Elizabeth sent her first email in 1976.
- DarkLaughingMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Heh that's easy..
Queen: "someone write an email to my son"
Someone: "ok, what do you want it to say"
Queen: "you forgot mother's day you ungrateful *******"
Someone: "ok, shall I send it from queen@england.com"
Queen: "yes"
And that is how you write an email without using a computer. - toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So you're, what, about 2 days and 5 years younger than the web? Who cares?
- yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1People, that is a crap link....
Don't miss these great BBC links to mark the event...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5243862.stm?lshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5242252.stm?ls - Petrushka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here in NZ they'd say, e.g., "dub-dub-dub amazon dot com". Fast enough.
- judderman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sorry this is a little of topic but after reading this I looked into NextStep the OS that the browser is running on and found the complete OS changed from looking like this http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/OPENSTEP_Desktop.jpg to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cocoa_dev_screenshot.png what seems different (and i might be wrong) but the 2 OS's are not complete re-writes which you would probably guess needed to be.
- quakeIII, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Why can't we keep saying the "Al Gore invented the internet joke"? It's better then the tube joke. Besides, it's almost certain that it will be around longer.
- scaaven2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I got an internet at my house but I was suprised at the number of tubes and how easily the tubes clog up.
- Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And lets celebrate by redirecting the www subdomain to the actual domain so we finally get rid of the double you double you double you dot crap (see: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2004/04/12/rewritingurlsforgoogle.html )
- Sukino, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3The luckiest day in history of porn industry.
- vishnus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Happy birthday :) :) May you live for many more milleniums
- ElectricKid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Celebrated a day late. Fired up Lynx today, googled, found & then read Tim Berners-Lee's post.
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.hypertext/msg/06dad279804cb3ba?dmode=source&hl=en&output=gplain
Read this with LYNX while listening to TWIT in the background. Man the net has come a long way.
mrASSMAN's correct by the way. It's the www birthday, not the net. - DarkLaughingMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I thought that only applies if you work for the government.
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