best thing to happen to the Internet?

The Bollox

I had this discussion with a friend a few days ago: what was the best thing to happen to the internet. I said Google was because it has so-far made Hotmail and most other Email servise providers obsolite, it is making a move on MSN messenger now, it has Google Earth and who could forget the best search engine the internet has to offer

but my friend said Firefox was, Iif I was to say something like that I would say Mozilla as opposed to just Firefox. I mean does anyone who has heard of Firefox still use IE? I don't think so

but I have decided to leave this up to a vote, which do you think was the no.1 god-send to the internet?

sorry, I made the post without a poll, could a mod please put one in for me, thanx

aidan_walsh

TCP/IP, tbh.

yossarin

porn?

ricey

Me

themole

google images/porn

yossarin

...now that i think about it.
the http / html protocol / tags. Without those, we'd all just be ftping /gopher'ing files around.
oh and still, porn.

The General

Marts wrote:

I had this discussion with a friend a few days ago: what was the best thing to happen to the internet. I said Google was because it has so-far made Hotmail and most other Email servise providers obsolite, it is making a move on MSN messenger now, it has Google Earth and who could forget the best search engine the internet has to offer

but my friend said Firefox was, Iif I was to say something like that I would say Mozilla as opposed to just Firefox. I mean does anyone who has heard of Firefox still use IE? I don't think so

but I have decided to leave this up to a vote, which do you think was the no.1 god-send to the internet?

sorry, I made the post without a poll, could a mod please put one in for me, thanx

i agree with your friend

firefox > google

Chong

Firefox and google, who can forget the internet its self.

RangeR

EMail
IM
Search Engines [used to be altavista, now google]
VoIP
VPN
Bit Torrent -> Distributed availability of large downloads
Google Earth
boards.ie, seriously
Download Accelerator
NTP -> Sycronise your computer times to atomic clock


Wow, there are so many and I can't remember them all. But the internet has brought a whole host of goodness to the world. Spam EMail and virii have to be the worst, though.

Sarsfield

The World Wide Web. And message boards!





and porn

Roen

Lezzers

ricey

What about Bittorrent gotta be up there.

netwhizkid

Well whatever about the best things, The worst things are flash animations and spam. Both of which renders the net useless unless you got a Broadband connection, which i am currently without as the wind through my satellite dish off and i'm without sat bb. As for the best things i'd say cheap flights and the sort.

Cabaal

Get back to basics people!
IRC
Usenet
The've outlasted all the IM clients etc


As for recent developments: VoIP and Bittorrent get my vote

Rhyme

Http/Html for sure

Google is indespensible

Bittorrent less so

...wait, IMG tags, couldnt live without those

CuLT

I agree with Roen, lesbians are clearly the best thing to happen to the Internet.

What other reason would anyone have had than for inventing more convenient ways of getting hot girl-on-girl action?

jubbly

people.

without people adopting the internet in the 90's using the net it would be boring.

well done everyone here !! give yourself a pat on the back and a blue peter badge

Placebo

CSS and not counter strike source, Cascading Style Sheets

CuLT

Are you serious?


I mean, CSS is handy and all, but "Best thing to ever happen to the Internet"?!

The General

WDK wrote:

Firefox and google, who can forget the internet its self.

theres always one :rolleyes:


the question was: best thing to happen to the INTERNET

dearg_doom

Opera.

and free stuff...

Heathen

MP3's cos if your a band trying to get out there and be heard what better way too do it than email off your demo, or have it hosted on your bands site... savage, not like years ago when it was all cassettes

Drapper

MIRC, SKYPE and MSN :-)

fooked the eircom phone in the bin ! save a fortune on calling relations overseas!

Baz_

W.W.W. nuff said!

Thank you Tim.

zAbbo

Drapper wrote:

MIRC, SKYPE and MSN :-)

fooked the eircom phone in the bin ! save a fortune on calling relations overseas!

all applications, would it not be irc, voip and im ?

CyberGhost

everything that happened to Internet, is the best that happened to it, everything that happened to it is equally important.

Drapper

bazH wrote:

all applications, would it not be irc, voip and im ?

I wanted to be more programme specific :-)

CuLT

that's really more of "the best thing to happen to young bands", wouldn't you agree?

Moriarty

What the cock? Moved from broadband to after hours.

Tsk.

StonedParadoX

P2P: NOT including BT ..complete and utter ****e i so hope it dies AND soon
Saying Firefox is the best thing since slice bread is also stupid its like saying spam is sexy
there ARE other browsers out there that are as good as firefox.. opera being one of them .. that being said i use firefox

irc
Google
mp3's
Avi
.exe

weemcd

scat

Exit

Wikipedia - it's what the internet was supposed to be when we all first heard about it.

Also, throw in search engines, and message boards.

tman

goatse and tubgirl

johnny_ultimate

Al Gore. Or so he'd like to think....

qz

Bittorrent and PORN.

Lord Oz

Bittorrent,PHP, and firewalls.

StupidLikeAFox

tman wrote:

goatse and tubgirl

lemonparty tbh

Rhyme

ColHol wrote:

lemonparty tbh

You forgot meatspin

*Shudder*

*Leaves*

Dave!

p2p programmes! Record labels might have something else to say, though...

Branoic

Gooooooooooooogle

JC 2K3

the acronym "lol"

muckwarrior

aidan_walsh wrote:

TCP/IP, tbh.

The definitive answer!

larryone

SMTP


I'm just after having to edit this to make those capitals. grrr.

superconor

teh 1337 r teh imp0rt4ntz0r tbh

Franky Boy

qz wrote:

Bittorrent and PORN.

You don't use bittorent!

pickarooney

Mosaic

StonedParadoX

firewalls?.. your kidding right?

matrim

Broadband

Goodshape

the world wide web is the best thing to happen to the internet.

and wikipedia in recent days for capturing the spirit of the internet and turning it into something truly useful.

Talliesin

Dns

Setun

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They're the best things, that and probably google