INTERNET 3:16 SAYS "I JUST WHIPPED YOUR @$$" (In Bejeweled)!

. . .
What?

It isn't the internet's birthday, but the .com extension's... Kind of a big difference D:

It isn't the internet's birthday, but the .com extension's... Kind of a
big difference D:

This. The internet has been around longer than domain registrars and domain names.

So it's more of a wedding aniversary really.

If that's the case, then we must plan to celebrate the anniversary of .org and .net!

The Internet's many wives are a jealous lot.

.org is just what happens when the internet manages to get all it's spouses together.

Happy 40th Birthday, Internet!

Sexy Open Crotch G-Strings
formal dresses

I remember when I first saw it. My dad called me over to his office,
where he had a x86 PC with a 1200 bit/s modem, which I’d mostly used for
games (I was 15 at the time) and connecting to various BBS‘. He said: there’s this new thing, they call it
the Internet. I think it’ll be really important.

What can
you do with it, I asked? You can see what’s on other computers, far
away, he said. You can do it via Gopher, or FTP, or Cello (the predecessor of today’s WWW browsers).
There wasn’t a lot to see there, so I quickly moved onto other things,
but soon after that day, a new way to browse the Internet came out: Netscape.

And
suddenly, the Internet became great. I could find out about games and
bands I’d never heard of before. I could see what the weather is like in
South Dakota. I could create a personal page (that’s what people did on
the Internet before blogs came to be) with my biography and picture for
everyone to see. I jumped on the train and never looked back.

The
real beginning was a couple of decades earlier, although no one can
really set the exact date for Internet’s birth. But on October 29, 1969,
the first two nodes of ARPANET were interconnected between
UCLA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and SRI International
(SRI) in Menlo Park, California. It took 12 years for 213 computers to get linked in the
network.

Somewhere after that, things started changing, fast.
Netscape – the archetypal browser – was overrun by Internet ExplorerInternet
Explorer. It
took about 10 years for Netscape’s market share to fall from over 90% to
less than 1%. Then Firefox started eating away at Internet Explorer’s
market share. Who knows what we’ll be browsing on in 10 years?

Fast
forward to today, and the Internet has over 1.5 billion users, and most
of them can’t imagine the world without it. Most of you don’t need an
explanation of what it is and how it works; it’s one of the fundamental
things you encounter, like rain or electricity. It’s in our blood. It
brought us the ability to communicate fast, to connect with our friends,
to create stuff together; it brought us social media, TwitterTwitter and FacebookFacebook.

But
unlike rain or electricity, it changes, faster and faster, each day. Its
first 40 years were just the beginning, and I’m really, really
interested in what it will look like in another 40 years. Whatever it
is, it’ll probably be unimaginable from today’s standpoint.

Do you
remember how you learned about the Internet? What was your first
experience with it? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.

.org is just what happens when the internet manages to get all it's spouses together.

You mean, all those .org sites I visit are nothing more than an enormous Internet orgy?

Wow, its gone a long way since back then.