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PenguinOverlord

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The Internet's 40th Birthday!
« on: October 29, 2009, 06:57:29 pm »
Lo.
No, seriously, that's pretty much it's first messege. Anyway, the Internet's 40th birthday is today, which I find awesome.
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Re: The Internet's 40th Birthday!
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2009, 07:00:25 pm »
thats great
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Re: The Internet's 40th Birthday!
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2009, 07:06:12 pm »
It was meant to be Log but the receiving computer had a stack overflow.
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Re: The Internet's 40th Birthday!
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2009, 07:08:15 pm »
Quote from: Mr Tk on October 29, 2009, 07:06:12 pm
It was meant to be Log but the receiving computer had a stack overflow.
Hush, it was LO! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Re: The Internet's 40th Birthday!
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2009, 07:28:37 pm »
You're both wrong. It was quite obviously LoL. This is the internet, remember  :P
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Re: The Internet's 40th Birthday!
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2009, 07:35:07 pm »
My god, it all makes sense!
I'd still rather it be "I want a hamburger." more.
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Re: The Internet's 40th Birthday!
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2009, 09:04:28 pm »
Am I the only one who finds the stack overflow to be the funniest hypothesis?
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Re: The Internet's 40th Birthday!
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2009, 09:07:36 pm »
40 years?

Crazy, considering it's been less than 15 years since it's been assumed that everybody has an email address, less than 10 that google, youtube and facebook have existed, less than 20 since home computers were commonplace....wow
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Re: The Internet's 40th Birthday!
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2009, 09:42:27 pm »
Quote from: Kagus on October 29, 2009, 09:04:28 pm
Am I the only one who finds the stack overflow to be the funniest hypothesis?

I MEAN.

HOW COULD IT OVERFLOW WHEN IT WAS THE FIRST ONE?
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Re: The Internet's 40th Birthday!
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2009, 10:16:58 pm »
I don't know what a stack overflow is, but I'm guessing that computers 40 years ago were about advanced enough that Angband would be a dazzling technical accomplishment, which makes transmitting the phrase "lo" pretty dang impressive
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Re: The Internet's 40th Birthday!
« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2009, 12:04:12 am »
 Thanks Al Gore! Your series of pipes had made all our lives better! How else could I send images of cats with captions to my friends and pass them hundreds of surveys? And don't get me started on the nice ladies in those chat rooms that always wanted to know my age and location down to the address back when I was 12.
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Re: The Internet's 40th Birthday!
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2009, 12:11:47 am »
It's been 40 years since the idea of the internet has existed in some implementation or another, but the internet that we use today has only been around since the 6th August, 1991, when the World Wide Web specification was released, based on the work of Tim Berners Lee. So while '40 years' sounds impressive, it's the same thing as saying that the car has been around for a hundred thousand years, because you count it from when the wheel was made.
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Re: The Internet's 40th Birthday!
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2009, 12:48:59 am »
Still, the Internet! Celebrate!  ;D

Off topic, am I the only one still scared of Dasleah? Seriously, that thread she made creeped me the fuck out.
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Re: The Internet's 40th Birthday!
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2009, 01:41:20 am »
'She'?  Don't tell me we've had yet another closet female roaming around on the boards all this while.

Beh, maybe I'm just getting old.  I'm not as "in" as I used to be.
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Re: The Internet's 40th Birthday!
« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2009, 02:08:00 am »
Quote from: Kagus on October 30, 2009, 01:41:20 am
'She'?  Don't tell me we've had yet another closet female roaming around on the boards all this while.

Beh, maybe I'm just getting old.  I'm not as "in" as I used to be.

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