35 years

[Spatula]

The internet is now 35 years old.

Happy birthday to you!

[Spatula]

OCT 29, 1969!

[Shagdac]

Really??? I believe you, but I sure don't remember it being around then! I barely remember microwaves being around then! 


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[janice]

I don't remember it being around that long, either.  My mom got the first microwave that came out, and I think I was 9 years old.  Remember the first microwave ovens?  They were these big honkin things that had a dial. LOL

[Spatula]

Yes, the first message sent from one computer to another was on Oct 29, 1969 at some university in the states by Leonard Kleinrock



MOST RELIABLE:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/background/internet/kleinrock_interview.html


OTHER SOURCES:

https://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~c9814405/cp2014/howwastheinternetinvented.htm

https://www.davesite.com/webstation/net-history.shtml

[Tash]

wow it's almost double my age and i only discovered its existance in about 1996

[piano_learner]

wow it's almost double my age and i only discovered its existance in about 1996

I think the Web was only made public in around 1992. So you were only 4 years behind. I first got onto the web around 1994.

[Spatula]

'96 for me

[Shagdac]

LOL to Janbo...Yes, I remember when they first came out (microwaves)

We were the first house in the neighborhood to get one. My brother and I each got to invite 8 friends over to watch us do a hot dog. We all stood in a half circle in the kitchen while my father hooked it up....and were told to "Stand Back" and he turned the huge dial to start it LOL.....As it began we all "oohed and aahed", then when the bell went off and we took it out, everyone got to feel how it was hot, but the oven was not! We could not get over it! We were amazed! LOL. Then we did a couple more and I remember cutting them up and putting toothpicks in them and everyone got to taste one! Thinking back, it's hilarious! Guess we all needed more of a life back then, huh!

.....don't even get me started on calculators you didn't have to plug in!!!!!


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[Spatula]

LOL to Janbo...Yes, I remember when they first came out (microwaves)

We were the first house in the neighborhood to get one. My brother and I each got to invite 8 friends over to watch us do a hot dog. We all stood in a half circle in the kitchen while my father hooked it up....and were told to "Stand Back" and he turned the huge dial to start it LOL.....As it began we all "oohed and aahed", then when the bell went off and we took it out, everyone got to feel how it was hot, but the oven was not! We could not get over it! We were amazed! LOL. Then we did a couple more and I remember cutting them up and putting toothpicks in them and everyone got to taste one! Thinking back, it's hilarious! Guess we all needed more of a life back then, huh!

.....don't even get me started on calculators you didn't have to plug in!!!!!


S

Oh my god! You lived in the age of the dinosaurs...no offense or anything.

I've never seen an "8 track" or whatever the hell they where to be replaced by VHS.

I remember those big @$$ LP laser discs...

And I know how to use one of those umm...SUPER OLD SCHOOL players where you put that giant disc and have to manually put the needle on those things...what are they called?

[Shagdac]

They were called a "stereo". And before Nintendo we had something called
Atari, with games like "Pong" and "Space Invaders" (anyone else remember those)?
LOL   Also, one year for Christmas I actually got a reel-to-reel tape recorder, haha!

But sorry, I never saw a dinasaur!
I'm not THAAAAAAAAAT old!


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[Spatula]

They were called a "stereo". And before Nintendo we had something called
Atari, with games like "Pong" and "Space Invaders" (anyone else remember those)?
LOL   Also, one year for Christmas I actually got a reel-to-reel tape recorder, haha!

But sorry, I never saw a dinasaur!
I'm not THAAAAAAAAAT old!

Yes old enough for Atari...remember that...I saw it in a technology museum  !

Gawd I'm surprizing even my self with these slick sappy comments.

[Bob]

Oct 29, 1969 -- Birth of the interent.

October 30, 1969 -- Birth of spam.  "Claim your free Atari!"  "Make her smile tonight!"  "Help the Nigerians transfer millions of dollars!"  "Here is your attachment!"

[Spatula]

Oct 29, 1969 -- Birth of the interent.

October 30, 1969 -- Birth of spam.  "Claim your free Atari!"  "Make her smile tonight!"  "Help the Nigerians transfer millions of dollars!"  "Here is your attachment!"

Yes...strings attached.  Many of them...dammmed viruses...oh well

I love you bug...Melissa bug...