[OT] The internet is 40 years old today!

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:45:44PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Chris F.A. Johnson <chris-E7bvbYbpR6jSUeElwK9/Pw at public.gmane.org>
> 
> |     The internet is 40 years old today!
> | 
> |     http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8331253.stm
> 
> I've heard so many media sources say that this was the beginning of
> the internet.  The Globe and Mail article headline said that it was
> the beginning of the web!
> 
> Personally, I feel that there was no single beginning and that many
> different creations and inventions fed into what we now call the
> internet.

Well data sent between the first two nodes of arpanet which later
became the internet does seem like the start of the internet.  It was
not necesarily the start of the web though since that was probably more
related to http/html in the early 90s.  The web requires the internet,
but the internet worked fine before the web came along.

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Len Sorensen
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