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This year
2007
http://wazzhot.blogspot.com/2007/05/history-of-internet.html
by sar420
Many young people around the world use the internet every day, and yet they have no memory of the history that led to the creation of the global network. Many have no understanding of how or why the internet has developed.
1972
- Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniack get stoned out of their minds and build a computer that costs a fortune and runs no software. "Everyone will want one of these!", says Jobs.
1976
- Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe develops Ethernet, later to be replaced by SodiumPentatholNet.
1977
- E-mail invented. most common message: "Let me know when you're there so I can call you"
Finally able to announce I’m working with Orange France Telecom | :Ben Metcalfe Blog
by benoit
I’m delighted to announce that I have (finally) started working for Orange France Telecom on an interesting, but highly topic secret, project they’re working on.
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2006
Netcraft
by jdrsantos
& 13 others
Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England which is funded through retained profit and derives its revenue in the following ways:
* Providing network security services, including fraud detection, application testing, code reviews, and automated penetration testing.
* Providing research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet. Netcraft has explored the Internet since 1995 and is a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, hosting providers, ISPs, encrypted transactions, electronic commerce, scripting languages and content technologies on the Internet.
Netcraft has a cosmopolitan client list, spread through the UK, the USA, mainland Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, and co-founder of 3com, pronounced Netcraft “cool”, while Tim O’Reilly called it the best known example of a site devoted to tracking technology on the Internet.
2005
Ben Metcalfe : Me Mena
by philippej
& 2 others
"Nevertheless, I guess I won't be getting a discount on a MovableType licence in the future !"
1970
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