Medlar on 12/3/2014 at 09:10
Happy Birthday Internet. 25 years old and growing like no other....
The inventor of the world wide web has marked the 25th anniversary of his creation by calling for a 'Magna Carta' bill of rights to protect its users. (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26540635) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26540635
SubJeff on 12/3/2014 at 09:12
The internet is to wild for a bill of rights to really mean anything IMHO.
Medlar on 12/3/2014 at 09:16
Wild indeed but so was life back in the days of the Magna Carta.
N'Al on 12/3/2014 at 09:47
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Happy Birthday!!
Gryzemuis on 12/3/2014 at 11:19
The Internet != the Web.
The Internet is "a network of networks". Designed to just transport data. That's all. You can have many different applications that use the Internet as a transport mechanism.
The Web is one of those applications. It's a web of HyperText pages, with all kinds of other content mixed in. It uses the Internet to transport data.
People keep mixing the two words. God, it drives me crazy. :) Even after 25 years. :) A dutch weblog did an article about the same story today. They called Berners-Lee "the daddy of the Internet". Arggh !
So this month it was 25 years ago that Berners-Lee (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web#1980.E2.80.931991:_Development_of_the_World_Wide_Web) wrote a proposal in March 1989 for "a large hypertext database with typed links". That was the start of the WWW.
For me the start of the Internet was a different date. The Internet as we know it. Before that, there was the Arpanet. The Arpanet transitioned into todya's Internet somewhere in November 1988. The Arpanet was still a purely scientific research network. Which connected universities and military sites. Commercial use and commercial access was forbidden. That changed in November 1988. Two things happened. Firstly it was no longer forbidden to deploy commercial activity over the Internet. Secondly, the first commercial ISPs started. They provided commercial access to commercial businesses. And even to individuals, via dialup. PSInet and UUnet were the two first ISPs, afaik. That happened a few years before the Web came into existence.
icemann on 12/3/2014 at 12:40
*Insert "The Internet is For Porn" youtube video*
Queue on 12/3/2014 at 13:45
It's the only reason I got the Internet, and it still keeps me coming today.
derfy on 12/3/2014 at 17:47
I see what you did there.
Ulukai on 12/3/2014 at 18:26
This explains why someone used the phrase "Information Superhighway" on the radio today, like it was 1996 or something.
demagogue on 12/3/2014 at 20:27
I went to university in 1995 right when the internet (www) was getting up and running on a wide scale. Before then, in the early 90s, there was BBS, where you had to dial into a page individually.
The transition happened very fast. I remember some orientation on the computer lab right at the start of college introducing it, and getting Netscape Navigator on a CD from some table passing it out on campus. Still the familiar static hiss like BBS from the phoneline, and getting cut when a call came in. And the pages were so primitive then, just text and a few gifs in a simple table at best, but things improved by the month it seemed.
