A Brief History Of The Internet

6 posted on January 6, 2009

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We’re on it every day. It’s an infrastructure that spans geographical, economic and cultural barriers. The Internet generates more new information in a single day than a person was likely to come across in his entire lifetime 200 years ago.

But where did it come from? How did it start? This is a great video history, from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to today’s Internet and World Wide Web.

How “Internet-Smart” Are You?

You had heard of the Arpanet before (+1 pt)
You thought it was some type of ground-dwelling creature in Brazil (-3 pt)
You actually know what the Arpanet is (+5 pt)
You can generally describe what the Internet is (+1 pt)
You thought Al Gore invented it (-10 pt)
You thought the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) are the same thing (-1 pt)
You know who Tim Berners-Lee is (+10 pt)
You have ever used World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in a sentence (+5 pt)
You know what the HTTP at the beginning of every web site address stands for (+5 pt)
You have “dialed up” to the Internet using an 50 hours Free AOL CD (+3 pt)
You still are on AOL (-10 pt)

Be honest, was that old news for you or are you still shocked to find out Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet?

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1 adam garland said:

It was a little techy for me, but cool animations and history. Thanks for introducing me to Lykke Li by the way, it’s got a few of my favorite songs on it. “Little Bit” is very fun, have you seen the video for it?

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2 Adam said:

My score on this little exam was +3.
I think everyone at one point in time used the 50 free hours from AOL and then sat on the phone for 50 hours to cancel the service.
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3 Amanda said:

Oh come on Brad… we all know its a fact Al Gore invented the internet! LOL

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4 Juli Jarvis said:

Ummm…one point.

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5 bryan a said:

in september 1994 (my freshman year of college) i was told by my math professor that i had to go onto the world wide web to get my homework assignment. i had no clue what he was talking about. So i stumbled into a computer lab, asked the TA there for some help, and the rest is history.

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6 Scott Fillmer said:

that was a pretty good video… I did get a 13 on your rankings but I guess I know some odd-ball stuff (it was the 50 hours free CD that put me over the top)

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7 Curtis said:

Brad, please.

My AIM screen name was “Curtis”. I was right there from the beginning. I used to play frisbee with those CDs.

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9 Eric D said:

I actually worked on ARPANET back in the early 1980s while in the U.S. Navy. Who would have thought it would have turned into this…….

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10 Phillip McCart said:

I’m such a nerd. I was fascinated by this. It’s like the History channel meets Discovery channel. I may blogart(blow-gart) this post on my site.

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11 Phillip McCart said:

And by the way, I think I should get extra points for the fact that we used Prodigy in 1992 to find facts about our upcoming Disney trip. +10 should suffice.

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13 Charles said:

Everyone knows the internets is a series of tubes!!!

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14 Lan Tester said:

Internet Video does not have some HD Quality yet but we are close to that:,’