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The internet is 40 years old today!

  • 29-10-2009 7:27pm
    #1
    MrEko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭


    Yes, ladies, gents, and pets of After Hours our beloved internet is forty, flirty, and filthy today!

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8331253.stm

    What would we do without it?


Comments

  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    what would we do without it?

    fap to our imagination like noobs..


  • #3
    Jako8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭Jako8


    MrEko wrote: »

    What would we do without it?

    Have a life.



    Happy Birthday Interwebz!! :D


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    40 years old?

    Over the hill


  • #5
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    jaysus 40. tis pushing on now


  • #6
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    You'd think it would be faster by now.


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  • #7
    That_Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    40? Internet I'd Like To Fcuk.


  • #8
    MrEko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭MrEko


    Deleted User wrote: »
    what would we do without it?

    fap to our imagination like noobs..

    There really should be an award for quickest refrence to w*anking


  • #9
    That_Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    MrEko wrote: »
    There really should be an award for quickest refrence to w*anking

    And the Spermy goes to......


  • #10
    Fey!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Fey!


    MrEko wrote: »
    What would we do without it?

    Go back to low quality, low tech top shelf mags!


  • #11
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Al Gore did a lot by his 21st birthday.
    He really is a man to look up to.


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    qwertyuiop


  • #13
    itsallaboutheL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    To Arthur


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I still remember BBS and 1200baud dialup, Where I used to work in 1980we had just upgraded the teleprinters to the mind boggling speed og 75 baud!


  • #15
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Another success for the Industrial/Military Complex!


  • #16
    wudangclan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭wudangclan


    happy birthday.


  • #17
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I still remember BBS and 1200baud dialup, Where I used to work in 1980we had just upgraded the teleprinters to the mind boggling speed og 75 baud!
    Ha Ha!. You're old.
    I was only 5 in 1980.


  • #18
    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,182 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    mike65 wrote: »
    Another success for the Industrial/Military Complex!

    Another success for public investment in research!


  • #19
    PFJSplitter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,575 ✭✭✭✭PFJSplitter


    Didn't Al Gore claim to have invented the internet?

    Happy Anniversary Internet ~ my ISP LOVES you!

    In 1980 I was - darn, I'm old, too! :eek:


  • #20
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    Terry wrote: »
    Ha Ha!. You're old.
    I was only 5 in 1980.

    ha ha! You're old
    i was -1 in 1980


  • #21
    MrEko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭MrEko


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    ha ha! You're old
    i was -1 in 1980

    Haha you are both really super old! I was -7 in 1980 :cool:


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  • #22
    Pygmalion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    ha ha! You're old
    i was -1 in 1980
    -12 here


  • #23
    manutd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 988 ✭✭✭manutd


    It's getting old now.


  • #24
    giggsy664
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭giggsy664


    Pygmalion wrote: »
    -12 here

    -15


  • #25
    Keogg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭Keogg


    giggsy664 wrote: »
    -15
    yikes! get out while you still can!:D

    it'd be -11 for me, and i thought I was young:pac:


    w00t happy birfdays interwebs :D:D:D


  • #26
    wing52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭wing52


    5 yo for me.

    Was it not tim berners lee who made the www? out of it

    instead of just a load of random message boards?


  • #27
    a-k-47
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭a-k-47


    back then it was communication between 2 computers. Didnt get going till the mid late 90s really.


  • #28
    dsmythy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,528 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    Why does the 40 year old virgin come to mind? :confused:


  • #29
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    more like 10 in fairness:)

    at least here in Ireland

    God bless the days of 56k


  • #30
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    nuxxx wrote: »

    God bless the days of 56k

    If yr a public sector worker, that means an entirely different thing!


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  • #31
    congo_90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭congo_90


    Hmm she doesn't look 40...

    its an IILF *Internet I'd like to Fap*








    Maybe laters


  • #32
    That_Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    Hopefully she'll show us her 00

    Sick of looking at 11.


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