Internet Birthday

[Monster Dave]

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.

[NAKID]

Al Gore must be proud!

[Monster Dave]

Al Gore must be proud!

Don't you ever have anything nice to say?

[NAKID]

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"

[derby]

Al Gore must be proud!

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.

[NAKID]

Doesn't make it un-funny...

[Pakhan]

"I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Al Gore

[Monster Dave]

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??

[NAKID]

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.

[causeofkaos]

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..

[Pakhan]

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 

[Monster Dave]

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 

It's acutally 40. Here's the info:http://dsc.discovery.com/news/slideshows/internet-anniversary.html

[Pakhan]

It's acutally 40. Here's the info:http://dsc.discovery.com/news/slideshows/internet-anniversary.html

http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/internet_history_80s.shtml

w/e happy b day interwebs

[Monster Dave]

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.

[Major Slow]

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.