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Old 17-12-2016, 14:58
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For those with an interest in history or youngsters who think we have always had the interweb.

https://twitter.com/workergnome/stat...04855276122114
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Old 17-12-2016, 15:55
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For those with an interest in history or youngsters who think we have always had the interweb.

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I think it would probably have fitted in a box. http://s23.postimg.org/zelyagnbv/jen...e_internet.jpg
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Old 17-12-2016, 16:21
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For those with an interest in history or youngsters who think we have always had the interweb.

https://twitter.com/workergnome/stat...04855276122114
What a shame we didn't fund Donald Davies.

In 1965, before Arpanet came into existence, an Englishman called Donald Davies had proposed a similar facility to Arpanet in the United Kingdom, the NPL Data Communications Network. It never got funded; but Donald Davies did develop the concept of packet switching, a means by which messages can travel from point to point across a network. Although others in the USA were working on packet switching techniques at the same time (notably Leonard Kleinrock and Paul Baran), it was the UK version that Arpanet first adopted.
Then of course later Tim Berners Lee came up with the concept of the world wide web much later and the way a browser would work from a protocol point of view.
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Old 24-12-2016, 13:27
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Arpanet got funded, because there was a requirement for messaging telecoms survivability, in the event of large scale infrastructure disaster. That pretty much means data packets routing, not ''circuit switching''. Regardless of particular implementations of the idea. Same goes for TBL, if it hadn't been hypertext protocol, there were many other possible variations on same idea .......
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Old 24-12-2016, 14:22
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there was a requirement for messaging telecoms survivability, in the event of large scale infrastructure disaster
According to the Daily Express, the internet is regularly broken by the Kardashian a$$, 'can you spot santa' optical illusions, or someone on so-called reality TV saying something on Twitter . . .
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Old 24-12-2016, 16:46
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I agree with the first Twitter comment. I didn't get on the internet until the mid 80s, it's awesome to see what it looked like more than 10 years earlier.
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Old 24-12-2016, 17:39
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I agree with the first Twitter comment. I didn't get on the internet until the mid 80s, it's awesome to see what it looked like more than 10 years earlier.
I take it you mean actually the internet and not just the nickname for the World Wide Web? The first website was launched in August 1991 according to the article in the link below.

http://www.livescience.com/34152-fir...-wide-web.html
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Old 24-12-2016, 18:05
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I take it you mean actually the internet and not just the nickname for the World Wide Web? The first website was launched in August 1991 according to the article in the link below.

http://www.livescience.com/34152-fir...-wide-web.html
Yup, I meant the internet, it was a damn site cheaper than direct dialling into BBSs/MUDs that were located in the States. I had a look around the web when it first appeared in 1991 (I was in uni at the time so had a fast internet connection) but to be honest I didn't think it would catch on, gopher seemed more useful.
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