40 years ago the Internet was born - now it devalues everything it touches
There are millions of people being disrupted out of their jobs thanks to the Internet. Is it a good thing? I think so… Let’s take a look at its beginnings:
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)
Without doubt, the Internet is the most significant collection of technologies ever created. It enables huge numbers of new types of businesses and services, many of them replacing pre-Internet businesses.
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Interessante info interactiva do Público: http://static.publico.clix.pt/40anosinternet/
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