Internet turns 40 with birthday party

Breitbart ^ | 10-29-09 | Breitbart

[STONEWALLS]

"Technology stars, pundits, and entrepreneurs joined the Internet's father on Thursday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his culture-changing child. "It's the 40th year since the infant Internet first spoke," said University of California, Los Angeles, professor Leonard Kleinrock, who headed the team that first linked computers online in 1969.

Kleinrock led an anniversary event that blended reminiscence of the Internet's past with debate about its future."

[guitarplayer1953]

There already is one, Bill Clinton signed into law the tax to help rural and other areas have access. Along with every school having access too. You actually said that it is free and used by all and I pointed out that it is not free we pay for it through Internet access and telephone taxes.

[SlowBoat407]

I take it back. From AP’s website regarding the year 1982:

AP establishes the first satellite color photo network with LaserPhoto II. The service improves the speed and quality of AP photos and marks the end of analog transmission over telephone lines, the technology that created Wirephoto.

So it happened while I was there.

[lmr]

I didn’t mean it was free in a monetary sense.

I meant that is was free as far as there being no centralized control over it.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[guitarplayer1953]

Hopefully it stays that way. but in my opinion BO and his minions will put a tax on it or try to control it in some way the wild west days will be over with. Look at china and the middle east.

[ThomasThomas]

That basically how a fax works.

[CJ Wolf]

Delphi was the first national commercial online service to offer Internet access to its subscribers - 1992.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Bill Gates made it easy for us all... to get viruses

[Pylon]

Boy I remember when I thought AOL was the greatest thing and put up with waiting up to an hour just to not get a busy signal and get logged in. Then you got booted 5 mins later. That was what, 1995 I think. When you got AOL discs in the mail and inside every magazine you bought.

[coydog]

Don’t let him. Make it clear that this is a “line in the sand”.

[Joe Boucher]

Thank you algore,
dumbass

[mlmr]

Who takes care of the structure and relays? Is that an organization?

[Vinnie]

Let’s see, that would have put Al Gore around 20 when he invented it.

No wonder one of the first services was called Prodigy.

Probably in his honor.