how internet created?

1960s: DARPA (US Military) dreamt of connected computers
1969: ARPANET – First 4 nodes!
1970s: TCP/IP was born
1980s: NSFNET connected universities
1990s: Commercial ISPs → Public internet
Today: Global network connecting billions

From military project to world changer. 📡

#InternetHistory #TechHistory #Networking

🐦🔍 #OTD 2002 Google revealed the secret of its search ranking tech: pigeons.

April Fools! PigeonRank™ claimed queries were sent to a “data coop,” where flocks watched flashing results and pecked rubber bars to rank pages in true pecking order.

Revisit this fine feathered foolishness on the Wayback Machine ⤵️
https://web.archive.org/web/20020401000000/http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

#WebNostalgia #InternetHistory #WaybackMachine #AprilFools #April1st

Faith, Doubt, and the Ghost of Memes Past

Some atheists are questioning their non-belief after old internet memes from the 2010s reappeared online. This affects how they see their identity.

#Atheism, #OnlineCulture, #Belief, #InternetHistory, #SelfReflection

https://newsletter.tf/atheists-rethinking-belief-online-memes-resurface/

A small number of atheists are looking again at why they don't believe, partly because old internet jokes from around 2015 are being shared again.

#Atheism, #OnlineCulture, #Belief, #InternetHistory, #SelfReflection
https://newsletter.tf/atheists-rethinking-belief-online-memes-resurface/

21,864 Yugoslavian .yu Domains

https://jacobfilipp.com/yu/

#HackerNews #YugoslavianDomains #.yuDomains #InternetHistory #DomainNames #TechNews

Engadget: Twitter turned 20 and I feel nothing. “It’s been 20 years since Jack Dorsey sent the first-ever tweet, which was never even a good tweet anyway. It’s been five years, by the way, since he turned that tweet into an NFT (remember NFTs??) and auctioned it for nearly $3 million. It’s now functionally worthless. Another chapter in Dorsey’s confusing, complicated legacy.”

Fascinating interactive visualization of web history by Opera.

https://web-rewind.com/

Thx @matteusbeus for the link!

#InternetHistory #WebArchives #digipres #Enshittification #DH