BS: Happy Birthday to the Internet!

Subject: BS: Happy Birthday to the Internet!
From: BK Lick
Date: 30 Oct 09 - 06:55 PM

"Happy 40th birthday, the internet.
  The first message was sent across Arpanet exactly 40 years ago, on 29 October 1969.
  We look at a few of the milestones in its development."

From Telegraph.co.uk

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to the Internet!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Oct 09 - 06:59 PM

So did we ever decide whether Al Gore was the inventor???

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to the Internet!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Oct 09 - 09:53 PM

It wasn't Gore. A chimp named Roscoe invented the Internet. I know this, because Chongo told me so. Roscoe's work was suppressed, of course, and he got no credit for it at all. Typical specist stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to the Internet!
From: Janie
Date: 30 Oct 09 - 10:00 PM

As far I am concerned, the internet did not exist until I got my first PC in 2002.

Before that it was just this weird, perverted thingie occasionally reported on by NPR and my good friend Dani.

All hail my egocentricity!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday to the Internet!
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 05:23 AM

here 's another interent birthday thread with some info that might be of interest here


lo and behold

biLL