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The Internet's Save-the-Date: A Tiny Item in a UCLA Student Newspaper

There are surprisingly few documents from 1969 that mark the birth of the internet. We have some notes scribbled on a pad of paper, and a few newspaper articles after the fact. But there weren't any reporters parked outside of 3420 Boelter Hall at UCLA on October 29, 1969 to witness that...
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The Rise And Fall of the ARPANET (1969-1989) in One GIF

The ARPANET made its first host-to-host connection on October 29, 1969 and from there slowly grew into a behemoth, laying the groundwork for our modern internet. The good folks over at Smithsonian magazine recently GIF’d the growth of the ARPANET from 1969 to 1977. But why stop there? Inspired...
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Here's the Internet's 'Birth Certificate' From 50 Years Ago Today

Fifty years ago today, on October 29, 1969, the internet was born. It was a humble beginning—a single login from a computer terminal at UCLA in Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in the Bay Area. But it was a tiny baby step that would eventually catapult the world into the...
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Peter Kirstein, Father of the European Internet, Is Dead At 86 - Slashdot

Peter Kirstein, a British computer scientist who was widely recognized as the father of the European internet, died on Wednesday at the age of 86. According to his daughter Sara Lynn Black, the cause was a brain tumor. The New York Times reports: Professor Kirstein fashioned his pivotal role in...
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Peter Kirstein, Father of the European Internet, Is Dead at 86 (Published 2020)

He was crucial to the spread of the protocols that underpin today’s internet (and gave Queen Elizabeth her own email address).
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Rest In Peace.
 
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CNET Remembers 1995, the Year Hollywood Finally Noticed The Internet - Slashdot

CNET is celebrating its 25th anniversary with articles remembering the 1990s — including that moment "when Hollywood finally noticed the web," calling it "a flawed but fun snapshot of the moment the internet took over the world..." "Twenty-five years ago, cinema met cyberspace in a riot of f...
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I had forgotten that April 30th just gone was the 28th Anniversary of the Internet being introduced to the public in 1993 in the form of the World Wide Web, though the WWW's official birthday is generally held to be March 12th (birthdate 1989) as per this article from 2019.

Also from 2019:
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30 years on, what’s next #ForTheWeb? - World Wide Web Foundation

On the World Wide Web’s 30th birthday, our founder and web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee reflects on how the web has changed our world and what we must do to build a better web that serves all of humanity. Please share using #Web30 #ForTheWeb. For updates about our work, sign up to our newsletter...
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From 2013:
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Happy Birthday, World Wide Web

The official website for NOVA. NOVA is the most-watched prime time science series on American television, reaching an average of five million viewers weekly.
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Twenty years of a free, open web

On 30 April 1993 CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain. CERN made the next release available with an open licence, as a more sure way to maximise its dissemination. Through these actions, making the software required to run a web server freely available, along with a basic...
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Some more background on the WWW's introduction:

World Wide Web (WWW) launches in the public domain | April 30, 1993 | HISTORY

On April 30, 1993, four years after publishing a proposal for “an idea of linked information systems,” computer scientist Tim Berners‑Lee releases the source code for the world’s first web browser and editor. Originally called Mesh, the browser that he dubbed WorldWideWeb becomes the first...
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You do not understand the power of the Dark Side. A glimpse of its conceptual birth was offered by an English student who had shared the same UCLA campus. John Brunner published his novel The Shockwave Rider in 1975. Its main protagonist is an intuitive hacker who types decimal code directly into the modem via the terminal phone keypad. In it Brunner coins such malware terms as "worm". The title refers to Alvin Toffler's best-selling thesis on Future Shock, in which he promotes the idea that invention and progress are nowadays moving faster than the human psyche can keep up with.
 
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David Boggs, Co-Inventor of Ethernet, Dies at 71 - Slashdot

David Boggs, an electrical engineer and computer scientist who helped create Ethernet, the computer networking technology that connects PCs to printers, other devices and the internet in offices and homes, died on Feb. 19 in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 71. From a report: His wife, Marcia Bush, said...
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RIP
 
Grey Havoc said:
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David Boggs, Co-Inventor of Ethernet, Dies at 71 - Slashdot

David Boggs, an electrical engineer and computer scientist who helped create Ethernet, the computer networking technology that connects PCs to printers, other devices and the internet in offices and homes, died on Feb. 19 in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 71. From a report: His wife, Marcia Bush, said...
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RIP
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I did not realise that he had created the Ethernet after all those years of using it, sad he has died. RIP.
 
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The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time - Slashdot

An obscure software system synchronizes the network's clocks. Who will keep it running? From a report: To solve the problem of time synchronization on the arpanet, computer scientist David Mills built what programmers call a protocol -- a collection of rules and procedures that creates a lingua...
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Man in Charge of Time on the Internet is Taking a Permanent Time-Out - Slashdot

Tic-toc...David Mills, the computer engineer who created the Network Time Protocol (NTP) is retiring. Now 84 years old, Mills is among the first in the late 70s and early 80s realizing that networked computers would need synchronized time. Mills has been maintaining the massive chronometric...
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Meant to post this a few days ago:
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How Internet Pioneers Celebrated 50 Years of the Internet - Slashdot

Founded in 1963, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers held a special event Sunday that they said would be "inspiring engineering for the next 50 years." The event featured talks on the origins of the internet from 80-year-old "father of the internet" Vint Cerf, along with John...
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US Nuke Agency Buys Internet Backbone Data - Slashdot

A U.S. government agency tasked with supporting the nation's nuclear deterrence capability has bought access to a data tool that claims to cover more than 90 percent of the world's internet traffic, and can in some cases let users trace activity through virtual private networks, according to...
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