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Happy Birthday Dear Internet . . . The Internet Devalues Everything It Touches

Source: Silicon Valley Watcher

Oct 29, 2009

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Forty years ago today, October 29, 1969 marks the birth of the Internet.

The first command typed in was "lo" which crashed the entire Internet - all two machines. Internet Reaches 40th Birthday Milestone

Undergraduate Charley Kline was given the simple job of logging on remotely from UCLA to the SRI machine; his one command was "login".
The first attempt, however, proved too much for the "interface message processor" or IMP for short - the system crashed as young Charley reached the letter "g".

... 12 years on, only 213 computers being linked up to the network.

The Guardian is collecting stories for its "A people's history of the internet."

To mark the 40th anniversary of the first stirrings of the internet we asked you to tell us your experiences of life online. Hundreds of you responded, and here we present an interactive documentary of your stories and videos, alongside our own research and interviews with key figures (About this project)

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