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January 15, 2013 By News Staff
Though there may be some question as to who really, really invented the Internet, the Net's milestones through history are clear, as detailed by this infographic from security software firm AVG -- from the birth of Arpanet in 1969 to the first virus in 1971, all the way through the number of Internet users breaking 2.4 billion in 2012.
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Now theese are just the coolest ways to show milestones, achievements, changes, and growth. More Please - I love info graphics. How about one from cokea-cola!!! There was a fantastic one years ago of a monopoly board themed of Bill Gates and all the companies he and MS owned. This was floating around in mid '98 I believe.
Many errors in this, and lacking important points. In 1973, there were way more than 35 users. 35 hosts maybe, I was on host #3 with a LOT of other users. The first worms were in the mid 1970s at PARC and Schoch and Hupp's technical paper in CACM was 1982. Brunner's book was 1975. Fiction BBC TV shows got this right. The list fails to explain the significance of the PC to the net in 1981 was. The list fails to note Usenet (far more important) and BITNET (Ira gets this credit) which were important in their ways and communities. Tim's software first ran on NeXT machines. Some of this stuff just isn't net related.
The break-up of AT&T in 1983 not only lead to a commoditization of WAN transport rates, but also a flat-rate, all-you-can-eat price reaction by the remaining Baby Bell monopolies against the long-distance threat. The internet scaled in the US for almost a decade before the rest of the world had flat-rate access. This unremembered and little known exogenous influence is critical, particularly if we want to understand where the internet is headed.