In case you didn't know, today is the 40th birthday of the Internet. That's right, it's hard to believe but forty years ago today, two computers at the University of California, Los Angeles, exchanged meaningless data in the first test of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), an experimental military network.
This exchange would plant the seed for what would become the most advanced communications network in all of human history: the Internet.
[thumbsup]
Al Gore must be proud! [roll]
Quote from: NAKID on September 02, 2009, 10:17:26 AM
Al Gore must be proud! [roll]
Don't you
ever have anything nice to say?
Occassionally.
I have this shirt from tshirt hell that says "Al Gore may not have invented the internet, but he did make up global warming"
Quote from: NAKID on September 02, 2009, 10:17:26 AM
Al Gore must be proud! [roll]
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp (http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp)
Despite the derisive references that continue even today, Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs were misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999.
Doesn't make it un-funny...
"I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Al Gore
Alright already - enough with the political crap. Thanks for stirring up the fire Chris. Can we please get back on topic now and off the political band wagon??
Hey now Dave, it could have been left as is but other people responded as well, so there's no need to call me out.
Thread Jack
wait i have to add a bit on that guy and i dont think its political
Al Gore is a piece of work ( insert colorful words here ) the only "Inconvenient truth" is he still has a shit load of stock in Oxy of Elk Hills ( largest oil field in Ca. ) when he was vice president he was the middle man when Elk Hills was purchased from the Navy by Occidental, and for his "hard work" he makes a killing from the stock in the oil thats pumped there. make the beast with two backs that hypocrite, did he get a Nobel piece prize nomination for that propaganda flick he did?
That guys a douche bag.
Thread Jack over..
I don't think it was politics, but regardless you're right back on topic.
The internet as we know it was born in 83 so actually it's a 26yo ;D
Quote from: Pakhan on September 02, 2009, 11:09:00 AM
I don't think it was politics, but regardless you're right back on topic.
The internet as we know it was born in 83 so actually it's a 26yo ;D
It's acutally 40. Here's the info:http://dsc.discovery.com/news/slideshows/internet-anniversary.html (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/slideshows/internet-anniversary.html)
Quote from: Monster Dave on September 02, 2009, 11:23:54 AM
It's acutally 40. Here's the info:http://dsc.discovery.com/news/slideshows/internet-anniversary.html (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/slideshows/internet-anniversary.html)
http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/internet_history_80s.shtml (http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/internet_history_80s.shtml)
w/e happy b day interwebs
Quote from: Pakhan on September 02, 2009, 11:55:31 AM
http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/internet_history_80s.shtml (http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/internet_history_80s.shtml)
w/e happy b day interwebs
This was on your site beginning in late 1969:
Frank Heart puts a team together to write the software that will run the IMPs and to specify changes in the Honeywell DDP- 516 they have chosen. The team includes Ben Barker, Bernie Cosell, Will Crowther, Bob Kahn, Severo Ornstein, and Dave Walden.
Four sites are selected. At each, a team gets to work on producing the software to enable its computers and the IMP to communicate. At UCLA, the first site, Vint Cerf, Steve Crocker, and Jon Postel work with Kleinrock to get ready. On April 7, Crocker sends around a memo entitled 'Request for Comments.' This is the first of thousands of RFCs that document the design of the ARPANET
and the Internet.[beer]
Quote from: causeofkaos on September 02, 2009, 11:06:30 AM
Thread Jack
wait i have to add a bit on that guy and i dont think its political
Al Gore is a piece of work ( insert colorful words here ) the only "Inconvenient truth" is he still has a shit load of stock in Oxy of Elk Hills ( largest oil field in Ca. ) when he was vice president he was the middle man when Elk Hills was purchased from the Navy by Occidental, and for his "hard work" he makes a killing from the stock in the oil thats pumped there. make the beast with two backs that hypocrite, did he get a Nobel piece prize nomination for that propaganda flick he did?
That guys a douche bag.
Thread Jack over..
I am sure glad we have an internet that allows people to make up anything without context or reference and spew it out. ;D
Quote from: Major Slow on September 02, 2009, 12:56:17 PM
I am sure glad we have an internet that allows people to make up anything without context or reference and spew it out. ;D
ain't that the truth....
(& it's true because it's on the 'net!) [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
Quote from: Major Slow on September 02, 2009, 12:56:17 PM
I am sure glad we have an internet that allows people to make up anything without context or reference and spew it out. ;D
REALLY?? Forget the fact that this is where i work, and the industry im in.
here is the link
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=468 (http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=468)
For thousands of years, the Kitanemuk Indians made their home in the Elk Hills of central California. Come February 2001, the last of the 100 burial grounds, holy places and other archaeological sites of the Kitanemuks will be obliterated by the oil drilling of Occidental Petroleum Company. Oxy's plans will "destroy forever the evidence that we once existed on this land," according to Dee Dominguez, a Kitanemuk whose great grandfather was a signatory to the 1851 treaty that surrendered the Elk Hills.
Occidental's planned drilling of the Elk Hills doesn't only threaten the memory of the Kitanemuk. Environmentalists say a rare species of fox, lizard and the kangaroo rat would also be threatened by Oxy's plans. A lawsuit has been filed under the Endangered Species Act. But none of that has given pause to Occidental or the politician who helped engineer the sale of the drilling rights to the federally-owned Elk Hills. That politician is Al Gore.
Gore recommended that the Elk Hills be sold as part of his 1995 "Reinventing Government" National Performance Review program. Gore-confidant (and former campaign manager) Tony Coelho served on the board of directors of the private company hired to assess the sale's environmental consequences. The sale was a windfall for Oxy. Within weeks of the announced purchase Occidental stock rose ten percent.
That was good news for Gore. Despite controversy over Dick Cheney's plans to keep stock options if elected, most Americans don't know that we already have a vice president with oil company stocks. Before the Elk Hills sale, Al Gore controlled between $250,000-$500,000 of Occidental stock (he is executor of a trust that he says goes only to his mother, but will revert to him upon her death). After the sale, Gore began disclosing between $500,000 and $1 million of his significantly more valuable stock.
Nowhere is Al Gore's environmental hypocrisy more glaring than when it comes to his relationship with Occidental. While on the one hand talking tough about his "big oil" opponents and waxing poetic about indigenous peoples in his 1992 book "Earth in the Balance," the Elk Hills sale and other deals show that money has always been more important to Al Gore than ideals.
Theres your reference, context and my spew. enjoy
Quote from: causeofkaos on September 03, 2009, 08:22:15 AM
REALLY?? Forget the fact that this is where i work, and the industry im in.
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Theres your reference, context and my spew. enjoy
i can't recall the last time i heard somebody so bitter to have a job.
oh no i love my job! seriously, but to be told im making shit up is what got my goat.
FYI...the internets run on fuel made by rotting whale and polar bear flesh.
I just read it in a blog
oh..... and it was Al Roker that invented it.