tommrow is the internets 10,000th day

[Calfredd]

Tim Berners was English, but saying English is another way to say British is not correct. People from England are English, people from Scottland are Scottish, people from Wales are welsh, and people from Northern Ireland are Northern Irish/Irish. British is the only inclusive term.

Well I wasn't completely wrong (English not being American at least) but I do appreciate the correction.

[Yvaelle]

Obligatory Tool:

[zorkuus]

Do I get a mini statue if I used the internet for porn everyday all that time? Like the WoW 10 year anniversary one?

[Tyrianth]

Well I wasn't completely wrong (English not being American at least) but I do appreciate the correction.

Lots of people from North America make the same mistake, I only know the difference because I got bitched at by a Scottish person a few years back for calling him English.

The Queen of England is another one, that title hasn't exsited for hundres of years. She's the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland.

[Deleted]

Do I get a mini statue if I used the internet for porn everyday all that time? Like the WoW 10 year anniversary one?

yeah u get a golden buttplug

[Jonnusthegreat]

I always thought it was a box with a red light on top.

Don't be an imbecile. It has to have tubes or how would it get anywhere? Some people...

[Kapadons]

It only took us 10000 days to turn it into the shit hole of human waste it currently is ? I'm not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed.

[Attackrabbit]

Don't be an imbecile. It has to have tubes or how would it get anywhere? Some people...

Everything's wireless these days....

[Slant]

I always thought it was a box with a red light on top.

Don't press the button or you'll turn the internet off!

[Hyve]

The Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online in 1969 under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which initially connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah). The contract was carried out by BBN of Cambridge, MA under Bob Kahn and went online in December 1969. By June 1970, MIT, Harvard, BBN, and Systems Development Corp (SDC) in Santa Monica, Cal. were added. By January 1971, Stanford, MIT's Lincoln Labs, Carnegie-Mellon, and Case-Western Reserve U were added. In months to come, NASA/Ames, Mitre, Burroughs, RAND, and the U of Illinois plugged in. After that, there were far too many to keep listing here.

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!

ARPANET was civilian.

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

Was ARPANET something that everyone in their homes could use? Nope.

Was the World Wide Web something that everyone in their homes could use? Yup

[FuxieDK]

happy 10000th day internet #10kdays what are you doing on that day

10.000 days makes absolutely no sense.
10.000 days = 27 years and 5 months, which would mean the internet "started" around 28/2-1989..

Everyone knows, that's far from the truth... The internet dates back to the 60s as a joint venture between American military and American universities, called ARPANET..

[willtron]

internet was only military before 1989 ARPANET

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Fixed it for you

English is technically correct, seeing as he was born in London.

[Hyve]

10.000 days makes absolutely no sense.
10.000 days = 27 years and 5 months, which would mean the internet "started" around 28/2-1989..

Everyone knows, that's far from the truth... The internet dates back to the 60s as a joint venture between American military and American universities, called ARPANET..

I don't see how this is hard to comprehend?

The World Wide Web, the Internet as we know it today, a system of connected devices that allow the transmission of data and the access of websites is not the same as ARPANET. ARPANET was essentially just a FTP system that universities would use, and some civilians, and it had a mild interface.

The World Wide Web however completely opened up websites and the use of the "Internet" to everyone. To claim that ARPANET and the Internet are the same thing is stupid.

[tankbug]

10.000 days makes absolutely no sense.
10.000 days = 27 years and 5 months, which would mean the internet "started" around 28/2-1989..

Everyone knows, that's far from the truth... The internet dates back to the 60s as a joint venture between American military and American universities, called ARPANET..

Maybe he's referring to this:

"The World Wide Web (WWW) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by URLs, interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet.[1] The World Wide Web was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989."

[caervek]

The internet was not created in 1989. 10000 days ago was 1989. The internet is far far older than 10000 days. Dunno where you got this magic number and date from.

This, many times this.

Maybe OP is referring to the WWW or something?

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Was ARPANET something that everyone in their homes could use? Nope.

Yes, provided they owned a computer and a modem. Email, Internet chat, discussion newsgroups, FTP downloads, BBS. The internet was already growing strong before web sites became a thing.

[tehealadin]

Probably been said, but the world wide web isn't the internet.

[glo]

Was ARPANET something that everyone in their homes could use? Nope.

Was the World Wide Web something that everyone in their homes could use? Yup

I don't see how this is hard to comprehend?

The World Wide Web, the Internet as we know it today, a system of connected devices that allow the transmission of data and the access of websites is not the same as ARPANET. ARPANET was essentially just a FTP system that universities would use, and some civilians, and it had a mild interface.

The World Wide Web however completely opened up websites and the use of the "Internet" to everyone. To claim that ARPANET and the Internet are the same thing is stupid.

You're still wrong, regardless. Public access to www only started in August 1991. If you want to get technical, the first www server/site was Dec 1990.

10k puts it back in the middle of 1989, there was no "world wide web" at the time.

And yeah, the internet was accessible to people in-home before www, look up "Gopher", and other similar protocols.

[Independent voter]

You're still wrong, regardless. Public access to www only started in August 1991. If you want to get technical, the first www server/site was Dec 1990.

10k puts it back in the middle of 1989, there was no "world wide web" at the time.

And yeah, the internet was accessible to people in-home before www, look up "Gopher", and other similar protocols.

If OP had said the WWW, I would agree, but OP said internet.

ARPANET had email, FTP, telnet which was kind of web like, gofer which was kind of web like, finger and a few other neat things I can't think of.

And today's internet isn't only WWW, it's Netflix streaming, torrent streaming, I think just those two make up 75% of internet traffic. And mobile devices use less WWW than desktop PCs.

[FuxieDK]

I don't see how this is hard to comprehend?

The World Wide Web, the Internet as we know it today, a system of connected devices that allow the transmission of data and the access of websites is not the same as ARPANET. ARPANET was essentially just a FTP system that universities would use, and some civilians, and it had a mild interface.

The World Wide Web however completely opened up websites and the use of the "Internet" to everyone. To claim that ARPANET and the Internet are the same thing is stupid.

WWW, IIRC, is from 1994, not 1989, so still not correct..

Besides, WWW is only one small of Internet, just like FTP, POP3, SMTP, and many other services are...

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Maybe he's referring to this:

"The World Wide Web (WWW) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by URLs, interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet.[1] The World Wide Web was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989."

But that would be the same as claiming that artifical electric lightning started in the 1990s, when energy saving bulbs became popular, even though the common light bulb dates back more than 100 years more.

[Livingstone]

Just remember, (link above) Socialism brought us the internet.

It succeeded in innovation where the free market failed.

I can already hear American minds being blown

I specifically say here American due to the sheer fear of that idea alone :P