The Internet is 40

[Saint in Paradise]

I never realised it was that old, mind you it is still a lot younger than me.

 

On October 29, 1969 Kleinrock led a team that got a computer at UCLA to "talk" to one at a research institute.

 

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/technology/6406312/internet-turns-40-with-birthday-party/

[St Landrew]

I never realised it was that old, mind you it is still a lot younger than me.

 

On October 29, 1969 Kleinrock led a team that got a computer at UCLA to "talk" to one at a research institute.

 

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/technology/6406312/internet-turns-40-with-birthday-party/

 

Yes, but the World Wide Web, is half that age, and is how we can all correspond with each other at a moment's notice. Admittedly, when I first got onto the Web, the notice wasn't exactly a moment.

 

But Happy Birthday Internet, all the same.

[Saint_clark]

Wasn't it basically just a messaging service between two computers in the same building?

[Saint in Paradise]

I suppose you could indeed say that but it has grown a bit since then.

Could perhaps now be compared to when people started writting notes to

others in the same room and then to other countries via the Postal system.

Everything has to start small and then grow.

[bridge too far]

I suppose you could indeed say that but it has grown a bit since then.

Could perhaps now be compared to when people started writting notes to

others in the same room and then to other countries via the Postal system.

Everything has to start small and then grow.

 

So I'm constantly being told