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Email Is 40 Years Old This Month

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2:00PM October 11, 2011 | Alex Kidman

The Next Web notes that October marks the fortieth anniversary of the first sent e-mail. Obvious jokes about how long it was before the first spam email was sent aside, October’s a momentous month for those of us who use email. These days, that’s all of us. More »


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A Map Of The First Internet

4:40AM January 15, 2011 | Sam Biddle

This is Arpanet. The internet before Google. Before Flickr, before YouTube, before Chatroulette, before BitTorrent. Before pictures of your ex-girlfriend on Facebook. An internet that you could draw a map of with only a few lines and some dots. 1972. More »


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The Day E-Mail Was Invented

1:05PM October 30, 2010 | Maureen OConnor

Forty-one years ago today, a pair of computer scientists tried to send the world’s first computer-to-computer message via the internet. The message was to be the word “log.” Their connection crashed before they got to “g.” [BoingBoing, CR4, image via] More »


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The Computer That Made The Internet

5:40AM October 31, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

This is Dr. Leonard Kleinrock pinching the nipples of the Interface Message Processor, a ruggedised Honeywell DDP-516 Minicomputer. This box is responsible for what you are reading now, which either makes her my mum or the internet’s mum or both. More »


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Happy Birthday, Internet! Let’s Celebrate Your History, You Old Gal

1:00PM October 30, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

We’ve had many cake-themed posts lately, but it’s not that we’re fat-asses. We’re just celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Internet. And there’s a lot to celebrate, because, as the Guardian shows, she’s seen a lot of action. More »


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Here Is The First Photo Of The Internet

4:40AM September 3, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

Little knew Leonard Kleinrock that the first network connection at his UCLA lab was going to bring us this mayhem of tweets and tits we call the internet. Back then, it was all about the possibility of total thermonuclear holocaust. More »