Time-Lapse View from Space

Well, Mosaic was one of the first (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers)

But I'll always be partial to lynx...

There a mixing between "network" and "internet". Although Sept 2 1969 marks the beginning of networked computers, that hardly is the start of the internet, although it was a required step for the internet to appear.

IMHO, Jan 1, 1983 should be day 1, mostly because that's when TCP/IP was adpted.

The day 2 computers 1st comunicated using TCP/IP and through a router should be regarded as the first internet-like communication, and thus this day should mak the birthdate of the internet.

Mosaic wasn't the first web browser. Not by a long shot.

August 9, 2005 at 4:51 pm.

(http://www.neatorama.com/2005/08/09/cool-optical-illusions/) :)

What birthday should we assign?

I don't know, when did Al Gore say he invented it?

My vote would be for the day ARPANET came to be.

Came back to see if my comment had been approved :)

I second SimonSays' suggestion. January 1st makes sense, and, more importantly, is easy to remember.

didn't al gore claim to have invented the internet?

rhonda: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

so....it was during '69 that two computers came together?

Why does Al Gore have to rain on my parade...

With Snow Leopard and all; the upcoming iTab.

Lest it's Bill!! :P

... Global warning and stuff!

Yup yup yup!!

:)

P.s. - Glad he's off the board!

Al Gore invented the internet and global warming.

The day the Internet started for me was the day I found Neatorama.

I think some more thinking on when the internet began. The military had been using networking many, many years prior to the application coming to the EDU world.

"The test data was meaningless, but the breakthrough eventually led to the formation of the internet, but there were plenty of other milestones."

That's a lot of buts.

i read somewhere that the www was not of an american origin. it's european, from CERN. would www be the same as "internet"?

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"Oct 29, 1969: Message sent from computer to computer in different locations.

1971: The first email was sent.
Jan 1, 1983: ARPANET adopted the standard TCP/IP protocol.

March 1989: Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

April 22, 1993: Mosaic became the first web browser."

August 4, 1997 - Skynet goes online

:P

@ Daisychain:

"would www be the same as “internet”?"

No... the www is just one of the applications of the internet. It has a related protocol: HTTP. It has to do with the traffic and presentation of web pages.

E-mail is another application (and it's protocols, like SMTP & POP). There are many other, but www and e-mail is what interest most people.

Sean, catsvillage: the 1969 linkup was an ARPA test. It became ARPANET in October of that year when the long-distance connection worked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#Initial_ARPA_deployment