Times are bad, children no longer obey their parents and everyone's got a blog. In honour of "This is NOT the 20th Birthday of the Internet Day" 2009 : comments.
I'm dorkily interested in this debate - I was always told the birth of the Internet was 1981 which was when (was it?) ARPA-net opened up. I think the diff between 69 and 81 is in the conceopt that the Internet is a network OF networks - but v happy to be told I'm wrong by an expert :)
I'm actually amazed 89 is the birth of the Web. I heard nothing of it till 93 - what WAS I doing? :) (Actually moving location, house, job and longterm partner. i guess I was a tad dstracted :)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
I'm actually amazed 89 is the birth of the Web. I heard nothing of it till 93 - what WAS I doing? :) (Actually moving location, house, job and longterm partner. i guess I was a tad dstracted :)