The Internet celebrated its 40th birthday this week, and Jimmy Kimmel got all all sentimental as a result. He decided to celebrate with a salute to all the World Wide Web has given to us over the years--it's either a loving tribute to our quirkiness or a damning indictment of how people spend their time.
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Just so you know, the publicity is all well and good, but the Internet was not created forty years ago. What was invented forty years ago was TCP/IP, which is an important part of the Internet, but not the same thing.
The Internet as we know it today didn't exist until after Al Gore. No lie. Before then, it was just Internet, the interconnection of a number of other networks to NSFNet, a restricted backbone. It became The Internet when MCI convinced Senator Al Gore (and others) to change the law to remove the restriction (no commercial traffic) from NSFNet. THAT is when The Internet as we know it today was born, or at least the basis of the Internet; the Web still hadn't happened, and without that, I don't think what we call The Internet today would really be the same.
Within a couple years http and Mosaic were created, and that's when the Internet became popular. Then Bill Gates tried to destroy Netscape (and succeeded, though they never stomped out all of the descendants of Mosaic, the first Web Browser) by (illegally) bundling an entire 'stack' in Windows. They got sued (for related crimes, not that particular one) and lost, before Win98 was even released, but more than a decade later, they still have monopoly power. Just hearing Jimmy say that man's name as if he is to thank for even one little bit of the Internet's existence or success makes me want to hurl.
Yes, this is fine and good but when do we celebrate the invention of internet p0rn?
That was only a minute or two after the net was invented.
September 3, 1969
The important thing to remember out of this is : 1996! aka Clinton administration, aka Democratic administration.
Can anyone name ANY innovation that ever came out during a Republican administration?
I'll be waiting.....tic toc tic toc
Um... apparently you didn't actually watch it. 40 years ago was 1969 not 1996.
Helped spreading it
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
September of '69 was the eighth month of the Nixon Administration.
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First Posted: 09- 3-09 09:35 AM | Updated: 09- 3-09 09:54 AM