Happy Birthday Internet!

[Iniika]

My local newspaper (yes, they still exist in some places) told me today is the 40th anniversary of the internet. As none of us could be here aruguing with each other to the point of... pointlessness without it, let's raise a glass to 40 years of "a place for angry people to yell at each other" and celebrate with some stories of how the internet has affected your life in large or small ways.

Lose millions when the .com bubble burst? Offered millions by a disposed Nigerian prince? Meet the love of your life? For those of you over 40, please, entertain us with stories of the 'before times' and how your witnessing of the evolution of the internet has changed your life.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/tec ... le1343077/

http://thenextweb.com/2009/09/02/today- ... ce-online/

[Grittonia]

Wait!
More people than just me have been contacted by Prince Oungorou?

[The Valepian Lands]

We need a big virtual hang-over tonight.

[Chrobalta]

Hooray internets!!!! Congratz on 40 years of not being a big truck.

[Kantria]

There was a time before the Internet?

My God! How did people go shopping? How did they find porn?!

[The Valepian Lands]

happy birthday to the trolling,
happy birthday to the blogging,
happy birthday to the useless videos,
and happy birthday to all of the porn watchers,

[Barzan]

My local newspaper (yes, they still exist in some places) told me today is the 40th anniversary of the internet.
[...]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/tec ... le1343077/

The Globe and Mail is a local newspaper? Or do you live in Toronto? (It is Toronto's national newspaper, after all )

Anyhow, to answer -- I don't need a TV now and I can nit-pick flights and airlines and pay bills and do banking and access an untold number of academic journals and plan bus and rail trips and order pizza and games and computer parts and trousers and books, etc. And of course there's porn.

[Rhodmhire]

This should be a holiday.

Mandatory to celebrate, that is.

Happy Birthday, O powerful Internet.

[Zeppy]

Is it over eighteen yet?

[Barzan]

Is it over eighteen yet?

It should be, because it has porn. (It's actually over 40.)

[CIB EMPIRE]

happy birthday you CB stealing bastard

[Rhodmhire]

There was a time before the Internet?

My God! How did people go shopping? How did they find porn?!

Rocks.

Just rocks.

Lots of them, apperantly.

[Iniika]

My local newspaper (yes, they still exist in some places) told me today is the 40th anniversary of the internet.
[...]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/tec ... le1343077/

The Globe and Mail is a local newspaper? Or do you live in Toronto? (It is Toronto's national newspaper, after all )

Anyhow, to answer -- I don't need a TV now and I can nit-pick flights and airlines and pay bills and do banking and access an untold number of academic journals and plan bus and rail trips and order pizza and games and computer parts and trousers and books, etc. And of course there's porn.

Well, I was thinking local on a global level. But all right... my NATIONAL newspaper told me...

This should be a holiday.

Mandatory to celebrate, that is.

Happy Birthday, O powerful Internet.

How shall we celebrate, then?

Is it over eighteen yet?

It's ok... it told said it was 18. That's all that matters.

[EvilDarkMagicians]

Happy Birthday.

[Saiwania]

Even though the internet didn't really go mainstream until about the mid to late 90's?

[Call to power]

I was actually thinking today that looking at how much the internet has evolved even since I was first exploring it back in like 2001 (old school internet porn was lulz) is just insane

anyway all hail our electrical CABAL overlord

[Rhodmhire]

This should be a holiday.

Mandatory to celebrate, that is.

Happy Birthday, O powerful Internet.

How shall we celebrate, then?

Partying. The usual. Only everyone will be doing it.

You know, or else.

[Mad hatters in jeans]

happy birfday tinternet, you halped mi lern to spel.

[Zdorvaiyoch]

Ah, the internet.
one of the main causes of my happines, sadness, depression, insomnia, joy, fear, access to products, and allowing me to say what ever the fuck I want (Because I sure can't do it in public).

Sure, in my case, the internet has caused more problems than it didn't, but I wouldn't have as much fun without it.

[Gauntleted Fist]

Happy birthday, Internet! Congrats on surviving forty years of innovation!

[Cameroi]

i missed the birth. i had been on local bbs's back in the very begining, but then i was traveling and computerless during the decade when arpa-net became the public internet.

i miss the early days when it was a completely open anarchy owned by techno-nerd hobbiests and professional engineers. when i first got back on, after my near decade of hyatus (85 to 94/95 or there abouts) it was already a going thing.

lets see, 40 years, 2009-40 99-30 69? nooo. the only thing in 69, we didn't even have 4004 cpu's yet, at least not in single quantities, let alone machines mere mortals could buy and bring home. it was all kits in the 70s until 77, then it was dial up and fido net and maybe darpa had access to something a little like it. but i'm REAL sure it didn't go public until sometime in the 80s. so the paper in question needs to check its facts, or at least clearify what it was refering to.

i remember 69. that was right after woodstock and i was in the air force to avoid being drafted into the army. even our super secred intelligent jaming transmitters didn't have cpu's yet. just discrete transistor logic and a few ssi.

so that 40 years, someone must have been on something, or made some kind of typo when they wrote that.

[Kim Jong-ilia]

i missed the birth. i had been on local bbs's back in the very begining, but then i was traveling and computerless during the decade when arpa-net became the public internet.

i miss the early days when it was a completely open anarchy owned by techno-nerd hobbiests and professional engineers. when i first got back on, after my near decade of hyatus (85 to 94/95 or there abouts) it was already a going thing.

lets see, 40 years, 2009-40 99-30 69? nooo. the only thing in 69, we didn't even have 4004 cpu's yet, at least not in single quantities, let alone machines mere mortals could buy and bring home. it was all kits in the 70s until 77, then it was dial up and fido net and maybe darpa had access to something a little like it. but i'm REAL sure it didn't go public until sometime in the 80s. so the paper in question needs to check its facts, or at least clearify what it was refering to.

i remember 69. that was right after woodstock and i was in the air force to avoid being drafted into the army. even our super secred intelligent jaming transmitters didn't have cpu's yet. just discrete transistor logic and a few ssi.

so that 40 years, someone must have been on something, or made some kind of typo when they wrote that.

After much work, the first two nodes of what would become the ARPANET were interconnected between UCLA's School of Engineering and Applied Science and SRI International (SRI) in Menlo Park, California, on October 29, 1969. The ARPANET was one of the "eve" networks of today's Internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

[Barzan]

i missed the birth. i had been on local bbs's back in the very begining, but then i was traveling and computerless during the decade when arpa-net became the public internet.

i miss the early days when it was a completely open anarchy owned by techno-nerd hobbiests and professional engineers. when i first got back on, after my near decade of hyatus (85 to 94/95 or there abouts) it was already a going thing.

lets see, 40 years, 2009-40 99-30 69? nooo. the only thing in 69, we didn't even have 4004 cpu's yet, at least not in single quantities, let alone machines mere mortals could buy and bring home. it was all kits in the 70s until 77, then it was dial up and fido net and maybe darpa had access to something a little like it. but i'm REAL sure it didn't go public until sometime in the 80s. so the paper in question needs to check its facts, or at least clearify what it was refering to.

i remember 69. that was right after woodstock and i was in the air force to avoid being drafted into the army. even our super secred intelligent jaming transmitters didn't have cpu's yet. just discrete transistor logic and a few ssi.

so that 40 years, someone must have been on something, or made some kind of typo when they wrote that.

After much work, the first two nodes of what would become the ARPANET were interconnected between UCLA's School of Engineering and Applied Science and SRI International (SRI) in Menlo Park, California, on October 29, 1969. The ARPANET was one of the "eve" networks of today's Internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

The dear leader's protégé has returned!