A Brief History of the Interent

Here's a pretty interesting read, "A Brief History of the Internet".

http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html

Who was the first to use the Internet?
Charley Kline at UCLA sent the first packets on ARPANet as he tried to connect to Stanford Research Institute on Oct 29, 1969. The system crashed as he reached the G in LOGIN!

The first effort, other than library catalogs, to index the Internet was created in 1989, as Peter Deutsch and his crew at McGill University in Montreal, created an archiver for ftp sites, which they named Archie. This software would periodically reach out to all known openly available ftp sites, list their files, and build a searchable index of the software.

 

I may be bored, but not bored enough to read all of that. I did gander at the part about Al Gore. Pretty interesting stuff...

 

I see......you would rather watch short clips of people getting kicked in the nuts and cars flipping over than to actually read about the people who had the vision to create the means for which you can watch the short clips of people getting kicked in the nuts and cars flipping over.

 

hahah! Well in my defense I only watched half of the nut kick video before I became bored. I'm not much of a reader...