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I just stumbled upon a picture of my grandmother on the Internet.

Strange to see my granny looking so young but it reminds me how great the Internet is.

Thank you Tim Berners-Lee for giving it to us for free. Not many would do such a thing. :thumb:

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A real beauty. So, as above, why is she on the 'net?
And, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the internet...tell us more.
 
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Super picture and could we live without the internet ?
 
i couldn't do without the internet, where else would i get all my music,gaming and media from.

and where could i watch the footie live on a saturday..


and how else would i have survived puberty.. i was too short to reach the top shelf! :p
 
And, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the internet...tell us more.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW, not the internet :)

The yanks invented the network the WWW sits on but it took a Brit to find something useful to do with it!
 
it was the US military that actually created the internet.

and i dunno about you but the map of the internet looks ALOT like the electrical pathways in a human brain....


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didn't the US military invent skynet in T3?


just saying thats all!!
 
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Violet Loxley.
 
it was the US military that actually created the internet.

I'm sure the US military would love for people to believe that but it isnt true.

ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork) were the pioneers of computer based networking - used by scientists - not the military.
 
It's the commercialisation that made the difference - when Freeserve launched in 1998 there were only just over 100,000 "domestic" internet subscribers in the UK -within a few months, Freeserve had over 1 million users - the rest is history :eek:
 
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ARPANET was created by a small team at MIT and DARPA ( Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) which is a DOD department.

Wasn't until 1983 that the military split away from the ARPANET to create MILNET

While they weren't the only ones responsible for the creation of it, they did pay for it


Of course this was only ONE of the networks that contributed to the Internet as we know it.
 
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It's the commercialisation that made the difference - when Freeserve launched in 1998 there were only just over 100,000 "domestic" internet subscribers -within a few months, Freeserve had over 1 million users - the rest is history :eek:


Yeah I remember paying for the service, the. The calls on top of that. All at a record speed of 33.3 before I upgraded to 56.6

Then a second line for isdn, the we tried satellite Internet, then finally adsl


I probably could have bought a new car with the cash I've spent over the years in the Internet!
 
Yeah I remember paying for the service, the. The calls on top of that. All at a record speed of 33.3 before I upgraded to 56.6

The only cost (for Freeserve) was the call charge which were at national rate with nothing added - it did mount up though!
 
Yes, the internet is amazing, but also a dangerous place. It is great for things like the OP, and I have used it for similar and traced back a lot of family history; but on the flip side it has a memory longer than any elephant, and certainly never forgets :p

In fact it was Vint Cerf (who I met recently and who now works for Google) and one of his colleagues at ARPA (now DARPA) that invented Internet Protocol, as a means for making proprietary systems talk to each other. Back then there were apparently around 400 machines which needed to be able to communicate, and having technicians building custom bridges for them all was a bit tedious. One of Vint's comments is that he is still amazed to this day that he and his colleagues were allowed to release the standards and specifications publically, given it was in the midst of the Cold War.
 
It's the commercialisation that made the difference - when Freeserve launched in 1998 there were only just over 100,000 "domestic" internet subscribers in the UK -within a few months, Freeserve had over 1 million users - the rest is history :eek:

I know one of the guys who came up with the original idea of freeserve - let's just say he is not short of a bob or two........ (and a nicer family man you could not wish to meet. Unless you crossed him in business. Then he would cut your legs off.)


The only cost (for Freeserve) was the call charge which were at national rate with nothing added - it did mount up though!

Lets not talk about the huge phone bill when I discovered Bulletin Boards etc. Mrs. Gollom was NOT best pleased it would be fair to say :D
 
Good summary here for anyone interested. ARPANET - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just posting this illustrates the strength of the internet---almost instant information retrieval ----on virtually any subject you wish. PRE-INTERNET ERA this information was available in libraries, newspaper archives, held on film reels or video tape in broadcasting company or Film Studio storage facilities, or accessible on written request to appropriate government agencies or local authority or church records. BUT getting the information would take days,weeks even years.
For better or worse it will rank with man's move from a hunter/gatherer existence to agrarian living and the industrial revolution on how it has fundamentally changed how people on the planet live today.
 
I know one of the guys who came up with the original idea of freeserve - let's just say he is not short of a bob or two........ (and a nicer family man you could not wish to meet. Unless you crossed him in business. Then he would cut your legs off.)

:D

in that case we have friends in common - my sole claim to fame was being the director at Planet that took Freeserve from concept to delivery and launch - exciting times. Sadly I didn't make the money that our mutual friend did (the story of my life!!), but I don't grudge him one penny of it :thumb::thumb:
 
in that case we have friends in common - my sole claim to fame was being the director at Planet that took Freeserve from concept to delivery and launch - exciting times. Sadly I didn't make the money that our mutual friend did (the story of my life!!), but I don't grudge him one penny of it :thumb::thumb:

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