When was the Internet Born?

1. ozoozol
   September 2nd, 2009 at 1:19 pm

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

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

2. SimonSays
   September 2nd, 2009 at 1:29 pm

   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.

3. anon1
   September 2nd, 2009 at 2:36 pm

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

4. Christophe
   September 2nd, 2009 at 2:37 pm

   August 9, 2005 at 4:51 pm.

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

5. Geek
   September 2nd, 2009 at 3:01 pm

   What birthday should we assign?

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

6. Sean D. Freuduh
   September 2nd, 2009 at 3:19 pm

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

7. ozoozol
   September 2nd, 2009 at 3:47 pm

   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.

8. rhonda
   September 2nd, 2009 at 3:56 pm

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

9. ozoozol
   September 2nd, 2009 at 4:04 pm

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

10. because i think like a child...
    September 2nd, 2009 at 4:17 pm

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

11. Steve Jobs
    September 2nd, 2009 at 4:51 pm

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

    With Snow Leopard and all; the upcoming iTab.

    Lest it's Bill!!

12. Steve Jobs
    September 2nd, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    ... Global warning and stuff!

    Yup yup yup!!

    

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

13. CE
    September 2nd, 2009 at 6:20 pm

    Al Gore invented the internet and global warming.

14. ted
    September 2nd, 2009 at 7:29 pm

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

15. catsvillage
    September 2nd, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    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.

16. Wes
    September 2nd, 2009 at 7:46 pm

    "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.

17. daisychain
    September 2nd, 2009 at 8:55 pm

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

    --
    Sent on a phone using T9space.com

18. Frau
    September 2nd, 2009 at 9:57 pm

    "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

    

19. SimonSays
    September 3rd, 2009 at 6:29 am

    @ 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.

20. Miss Cellania
    September 3rd, 2009 at 7:18 am

    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

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