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  1. September 2nd, 2004 03:34 PM #1
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    35th Birthday of Internet! Wooo!

    It may be difficult to define how old the internet really is, but if you define the start point in the event that took place in a lab on the 2nd of September 1969, then it is exactly 35 years today the two first computers got connected.

    It was two computers being just 5 meters from each other, but already in January 1970 there were 5 computers. It was all a part of project called ARPAnet lead by professor Len Kleinroc and his collegues/studens from UCLA.

    Since then the internet haven't stood still, with a broad range of inventions that have great influence on our daily lives, like email, TCP/IP protocol and the colossal spread of the internet across the world. And of course there is Threshold!

    More in depth article about internet and it's beginnings.

    An early tv program about internet (8,7Mb).

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  2. September 2nd, 2004 09:28 PM #2
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    Woo Hoo!

    Way to go internet!
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  3. September 2nd, 2004 10:18 PM #3
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    O how thee have grown!

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  4. September 3rd, 2004 08:04 AM #4
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    Cheers for Gore who invented the internet!:flush
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  5. September 3rd, 2004 08:32 AM #5
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    Happy Birthday to the internet! If it wasn't for the internet I would probably not have the beautiful son I have today! Nor would I have met some of the great friends I have.
    Love and stop lights can be cruel. J. Doherty
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  6. September 3rd, 2004 12:07 PM #6
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    Originally posted by Isaviel
    If it wasn't for the internet I would probably not have the beautiful son I have today!
    Wow. They sell everything on EBAY now, don't they.
    Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my Uncle Jack off a horse." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse."

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  7. September 3rd, 2004 12:08 PM #7
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    Yeah well the sperm bank was too expensive!

    So I went Ebay. *le sigh*
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