Internet turns 40; AP Lists Key Milestones

[r0x0r]

1996: Dancing Baby meme appears. Bandwidth wastage rises successively each year. Now approaching the 99.99% wasted per year level.

Bandwidth wastage...See also: Social networking, World of Warcraft, flame wars, 4chan.

 

[crom]

No mention of porn? C'mon AP, porn is what makes the internet special!

 

[liquid0h]

[citation][nom]tommychan[/nom]I thought internet was orginated in Europe at 1980see http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo [...] d_Wide_Web[/citation]

Read the first paragraph of that article again =P

 

[theubersmurf]

[citation][nom]ssalim[/nom]and soon the "internets" will become self-aware and .... dun dun dun![/citation]the zombie-bot-net-robot holocaust?

 

[dxwarlock]

"the network was an experimental project for the U.S. Department of Defense, initially exchanging meaningless data."

wow, so in 40 years it hasn't changed?
90% of people online now use it to "exchanging meaningless data".

 

[JohnnyLucky]

WOW! Very Interesting timeline!

 

[WyomingKnott]

[citation][nom]DXWarlock[/nom]"the network was an experimental project for the U.S. Department of Defense, initially exchanging meaningless data."wow, so in 40 years it hasn't changed? 90% of people online now use it to "exchanging meaningless data".[/citation]
Har har har!

 

[virtualban]

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
And the RIAA/MPAA came and took it all down,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
And US providers implementing bandwidth caps,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
And the pirate bay goes down,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum 🙁

 

[unholygregor]

Happy birthday

 

[noobinberg]

In 1983, Richard Stallman started the GNU project with the goal of creating a free UNIX-like operating system.[2] As part of this work, he wrote the GNU General Public License (GPL). By the early 1990s there was almost enough available software to create a full operating system. However, the GNU kernel, called Hurd, failed to attract enough attention from developers leaving GNU incomplete.

 

[Ethereal_Dragon]

[citation][nom]Greg_77[/nom]"Originally named Arpanet, the network was an experimental project for the U.S. Department of Defense, initially exchanging meaningless data."Some things haven't changed...[/citation]

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