The Internet is 40 today

[xela]

NPR just ran a story on how today is the 40th birthday of the Internet, marking it from the first successful data transmission across BBN's IMPs. And then they asked listeners (possibly rhetorically, or possibly with a call in and tell us your stories angle) to remember their first encounter with the Internet.

And thinking about that, I realized two things: (1) I can't put my finger on my first contact with the 'Net. And (2) I got my first account on an Internet-connected host in September or October of 1989. So I've been on the 'Net for over half the time the 'Net has existed.

I guess I'm no longer a noob.

Comments

[dpolicar]

I can't put my finger on my first contact with the 'Net.

Hah! Good one.

[nakor.livejournal.com]

The first message I sent that ended up on the Internet reached the Internet some time after I had my first interactive session with an Internet-connected machine. Ah, the days of FidoNet and TAPR. But thanks to those technologies, my first encounter with the Internet was a decade earlier than it could have been... if somewhat unstuck in time.