Apparently I missed the Internet’s Birthday 2 days ago on August 6th. I stumbled upon this article just today and thought I’d share with the class.

On that day in 1991 some computer code was put on alt.hypertext discussion group so that others could download and play with it. After reading that I wondered if this was also the birthday of the opensource movement?

Anyways, I hope you enjoy the read.

*** Update:� Apparently, as with trying to discern the actual date of Jesus’ birthday, so enters confusion to the exact date of the Internet’s birth.� While doing some research on general industry background information on domain names, I stumbled upon this article at UCLA that dates the origins of the Internet back to 1969.� I’d heard reference to ARPA net from programming classes back in the early 80s and while I was in the military but this is the first time I actually read specifically about the exact history and origin.

It’s another interesting read and also gives a clue to the origins of a fairly common greating amoungst techies “lo” .

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