Internet Turns 35 Today

shadowspar writes "The CBC is reporting that the Internet turned 35 today. The story talks about the less-than-prophetic beginnings of the net: 'In order to log in to the two-computer network, which was then called ARPANET, programmers at UCLA were to type in 'log', and Stanford would reply 'in'. The UCLA programmers only got as far as 'lo' before the Stanford machine crashed.'"

Man

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd swear it only looked 29!

Which?

[datGSguy]

Which Internet?

21

[happyfrogcow]

I think that means Al Gore was only 21 when he invented it

Before the Stanford machine crashed...

[Anonymous Coward]

MS must have a time machine.

35 years

[thedogcow]

and what a wonderful 35 years of porn collecting it was.

The unfortunate side of the internet

[Sneftel]

From the article:

Kleinrock said he predicted in 1969 that the small network would eventually expand across the globe, making a vast amount of information accessible at any time from anywhere in the world.

"The part I missed... was that my 97-year-old mother would be on the internet today," he said.

"...and man, do I ever wish those pictures hadn't gotten onto the 'net."

35 years on

[BillsPetMonkey]

and you can go and meet many of the original programmers, now working in home improvement stores up and down the land!

Thousands of twisty websites

[Alien54]

all alike.

or like galaxies in the night sky, separated by vast expanses of emptines and porn

What they meant to type...

[ajlitt]

...wasn't "log". It was "lol!!1! did u get my msg??"

35?

[daeley]

Damn, that's old. I think it's about time for the Internet to packet in.

Ahem.

Weird.....

[dickeya]

my girlfriend just turned 35 also. Hmmmmmm, I've never seen them in a picture together.................

So the Internet Can Understand It

[ThePDW]

01001000 01100001 01110000 01110000 01111001 00100000 01000010 01101001 01110010 01110100 01101000 01100100 01100001 01111001 00100001

**cough**I-tunes**cough

[Tracer_Bullet82]

I would have modded you troll, if I had mod points.

So...

[Ryan Stortz]

So....does this mean that after they tried again, the first 3 letters the grace the internet were lol.

(Lo [crash] Log)

It's a scary thought....

Famous internet prediction by me in 1994

[Ars-Fartsica]

In a 4th year networking class paper:

"The Web will likely be a novelty while serious research will remain on Gopher."

So Al Gore

[kensai]

was only like 10 when he invented the Internet. The man's a freakin genius ;)

H4PPY B1R7HD4Y

[Satertek]

H4PPY B1R7HD4Y 1N73RN37

thanks alot for l33t speak...

Re:The unfortunate side of the internet

[null etc.]

Kleinrock said he predicted in 1969 that the small network would eventually expand across the globe, making a vast amount of information accessible at any time from anywhere in the world.

The prediction was so close!

Modified for correctness:

Kleinrock said he predicted in 1969 that the small network would eventually expand across the globe, making a vast amount of junk email accessible at any time from anywhere in the world.

Re:35 years

[Anonymous Coward]

...especially considering that the for the first 20 years the porn was entirely text-based.

Happy b-day...

[Lisandro]

...and thanks for all the porn! (drops a tear)

Very prophetic actually

[simon_clarkstone]

the less-than-prophetic beginnings of the net: ... The UCLA programmers only got as far as 'lo' before the Stanford machine crashed.
Oh, no. The idea of a machine crashing instead of serving up the requested data is totally alien to the modern Slashdot reader!

Re:35 years on

[RealAlaskan]

... many of the original programmers [of the internet], now working in home improvement stores up and down the land!

That should encourage us all: even after 35 years of internet-enabled outsourcing, really great programmers with a portfolio of original, ground-breaking work can still find a job without moving to Asia.

happy birthday

[Anonymous Coward]

happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, you smell like the zoo, you look like a monkey, and you smell like one too :^P

Cane-Walking

[pipingguy]

Dammit, I'm older than it is. Mumble ..kids...MP3...cell phones...aaargh!

So that's why...

[The-Bus]

No wonder. I was heading to lunch today and I drove past Matt Sauper's Chevrolet, and there was the Internet with that new blonde girlfriend of it. I hear she's only in college. As I was parking at the sandwich place, there they went, speeding by me. The Internet apparently bought a solid gold Corvette convertible. At least I thought it was him: the license plate said HTTPIMP.

Is seems like...

[mbrewthx]

Only yesterday The Internet hosted it's firt pRon site...

Re:So...

[Frogbert]

Even worse they mistyped the second attempt.

Lo (Crash) Lomg

Re:Thousands of twisty websites

[spuzzzzzzz]

It is dark and you are likely to click on a virus-installing link.

Internet Down?

[Evil Butters]

So does this mean that the whole damn Internet will be down now -- as it gets slashdoted?

According to US law

[TiggertheMad]

A president of the United States must be 35 years old and a native US citicizen. So, who is with me?

INTERNET for PRESIDENT, 2004!

It is a pretty good choice. Internet is socially liberal, and fiscially conservative, very accepting of others, and it is willing to let you look at it's massive pr0n collection for free.

Now, all it needs is a phone switch for VP, and it's the ultimate ticket.

Re:So Al Gore

[Dimensio]

Al Gore is 56, which means that he would have been 21 at the time of the 'net's first incarnation, not 10.

Thanks to his invention, I was able to look that up to correct you.

Three Dead Trolls

[Anonymous Coward]

reminded me of this little gem:
"The Internet was invented by the American military back in the late '60s. It was designed to be a durable, scalable, decentralized information delivery system so that in the event of a nuclear attack, American military leaders would still have access to pornography."

Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie [deadtroll.com] - "Keep your parents off the internet" (I'm not afiliated with them)

Re:35?

[ar1550]

No, no, 35 is the perfect age. It's not so old that it can't attract younger users, but it has enough experience to satisfy even the most advance user.

Re:The unfortunate side of the internet

[Soko]

those of you that are at UCLA can go to the engineering library (Boelter Hall, 4th? floor) and see the IMP (interface message processor). it's a green refrigerator-sized metal box with some switches on the front.

UCLAd00d1: Dude, there's this funky green fridge thing on the 4th floor, but there's no beer inside, man!
UCLAd00d2: No way, mon. Let me grab my uber-1337 peltier and water c00ling system and fix it up, d00d.
UCLAd00d1: sw33t!!!

Soko

Re:35 years

[operagost]

ANSI? In my day, we didn't have COLOR in our ASCII art! Straight VT100 animations were good enough for us! Kids these days!

"Maybe if TCP/IP were less formal...

[jcuervo]

it'd be 'YO!/SUP?' instead" - Thinkgeek

Seems fitting, though.

192.168.1.2: 'Lo.
192.168.1.1: Hey.
192.168.1.2: 'n I get a shell?
192.168.1.1: Sure.