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1. Orjan Morjan
   July 29th, 2008 at 5:30 am

   No mention of the World wide web?

2. Lost-origin
   July 29th, 2008 at 5:51 am

   Typical… No mention of CERN and the role they played. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

3. Page
   July 29th, 2008 at 6:15 am

   G8 sharing man.I m g8ful 2 u.U hv shared rare infos..many many thnks.

4. Lasse
   July 29th, 2008 at 6:44 am

   I actually don’t know what “2 girls 1 cup” means. Maybe that’s a good thing?

5. Larfin Jackarse
   July 29th, 2008 at 7:32 am

   @Lasse
   Don’t go looking. It is not funny, not cute, not ‘neat’ it is like ‘goatse’ but even more ’so’. Read the review of Salo at imdb and if any of the final meal scenes sounds grouse then go and find it.

   However if Salo sounds off then God can never make enough unicorns for us to pictures of for you to see. to erase what you will have seen.

6. Larfin Jackarse
   July 29th, 2008 at 7:36 am

   re: Spam
   “Spam King murders family”

   http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/escaped-spam-king-murders-fam ily/2008/07/28/1217097105110.html

   No comment.

7. Bransby
   July 29th, 2008 at 9:52 am

   Good article, but it’s a fair point that some mention of Berners-Lee and the WWW probably should have been included.

8. Moon
   July 29th, 2008 at 10:44 am

   So, the first youtube video is all about elephant dongs? Nice. That’ll go down in history.

9. Abbas Halai
   July 29th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

   Technically,

   Doogie Howser, M.D. had the first “blog”, AND it was nationally known as he updated it every week and the end of each episode.

   - Abbas

10. Alex
    July 29th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Ask and you shall receive - I’ve updated the article to include some neat facts about Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the http://WWW.

11. Orjan Morjan
    July 29th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    Thanks

12. aa
    July 29th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    There is an error in this article. SRI is not located in Palo Alto, it’s in Menlo Park. In fact it is directly across the street from Menlo Park city hall.

13. Alex
    July 29th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    aa is right, but the reference to SRI in Palo Alto is a direct quote from the source.

14. James Choate
    July 29th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    With regard to blogs and such, Solar Soyuz Zaibatsu has been up since 1993. It started life as a C64 BBS in 1984.

15. Jim Beam
    July 29th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

    LOL, the next article should be ten things you should NOT know about the internet. LOL.

    Jt
    http://www.FireMe.To/udi

16. zeeol
    July 29th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    I think the 10th is most important.

17. FrankH
    July 29th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    Quite a nice piece, I think Ted Nelson and hypertext deserves a mention though, especially as he influenced a whole bunch of these guys who did the nuts and bolts stuff.

18. Pattern Making
    July 29th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    Third youtube co-founder??????

19. Burdo
    July 29th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    Hey didn’t know about Al Gore´s actions, well, know I’ll watch some porn ha ha.

20. TenderDestiny
    July 29th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    12% porn? That seems a little low.

21. Ollie
    July 29th, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    “Pornographic websites: 4.2 million (12% of total websites)”

    Those figures seem extremely low. Are you saying there are only around 40 million websites in total then?
    Because that figure is contradicted more than once in the very same article.

22. JC
    July 29th, 2008 at 7:33 pm

    Interesting stories. I knew about Al Gore´s quote.

23. Ali S.
    July 29th, 2008 at 9:24 pm

    All I have to say is that the Internet not only helped me realize the amount of amazing knowledge available for free..but it also destroyed part of my innocence quickly within hours.

24. eMan
    July 30th, 2008 at 1:05 am

    “Youtube” actually outranks “Sex” on google search 2:1 now! So I guess the old cliche about sex being the most searched for term on the net is out.

    http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2C+youtube

25. Toby B.
    July 30th, 2008 at 1:45 am

    Alex, once again, spectacular work. Posts like these are why I love this site.

26. Maikeru76
    July 30th, 2008 at 1:55 am

    Hmmm,

    I make a living off the Internet as a writer…so I am heavily indebted to the Net…

    Arpanet was created for the Cold War right…just in case?

    About porn on the net…hmmmm, what’s wrong with the female form or the male for that matter?

27. UnreaL
    July 30th, 2008 at 2:42 am

    Pay close attention to the Tim Berners-Lee drawing of servers which looks authentically old-fashioned, and note the caption: “Information on one server reefers to information on another.”

28. Alex
    July 30th, 2008 at 3:03 am

    Thanks Tony B!

29. Larfin Jackarse
    July 30th, 2008 at 4:12 am

    Wow stop messing with my mind. I also spotted Tim missing and thought I would post on that, next time I checked it WAS there. I looked at the post, looked at my drink, looked at the post, looked at my drink and decide d to quite drinking.

    Pleased to know I can go open a beer now.

30. Joe | A New Band A Day
    July 30th, 2008 at 5:46 am

    This is really, really interesting, thanks. The Al Gore picture is truly wonderful! And yes, I too was a bit surprised at the porn websites figure, but I won’t contest it…

    Great article, thanks again.

    Joe - http://www.anewbandaday.com

31. 800HighTech.com
    July 30th, 2008 at 5:58 am

    Some cool facts, the history of the internet is rarely a topic of interest, glad it came up here.

32. James Joyce
    July 30th, 2008 at 7:35 am

    I was with you until you tried to make Al Gore look good, first off the legislation in America passed by Al Gore and his cronies has created monopolies and made what should have been the fastest and technologically advanced network in the world, instead The United States ranked 15th out of 30 countries for broadband penetration.

    After working overseas for eight years now I am embarrassed that America still has no coherent national broadband plan, no competition, and few choices for overpriced services.

    The Microsoft monopoly crippled the computer industry and left us with “Windows”, we will never know all the creative ideas that were bought up and crushed by the Microsoft money making machine, we are only now starting to see innovation coming from outside of Microsoft controlled interest, and it shows.

    Al Gore and American politicians schemed and connived to get us the 15th best broadband access in the world, nothing to beat your chest about.

    That large SUCKING sound you hear is Al(do as I say, not as I do) Gore using energy, while telling everyone else to conserve…sorry had to get that out :–)

33. paresh
    July 30th, 2008 at 10:54 am

    great list, thanks for sharing.

34. 11
    July 30th, 2008 at 11:39 am

    You forgot the most important:

    On the Internets, no one needs your opinion.
    They may send you to fuck yourself. And they will.

35. Thomas
    July 30th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    I think you’re forgetting John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Dickwad Theory which states, “Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Dickwad.”

36. EDWARD BILL
    October 5th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    THANK YOU

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