Mashable: Happy 40th Birthday, Internet!
… The real beginning was a couple of decades earlier, although no one can really set the exact date for Internet’s birth. But on October 29, 1969, the first two nodes of ARPANET were interconnected between UCLA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and SRI International (SRI) in Menlo Park, California. It took 12 years for 213 computers to get linked in the network.
Somewhere after that, things started changing, fast. Netscape – the archetypal browser – was overrun by Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer). It took about 10 years for Netscape’s market share to fall from over 90% to less than 1%. Then Firefox started eating away at Internet Explorer’s market share. Who knows what we’ll be browsing on in 10 years?
Fast forward to today, and the Internet has over 1.5 billion users, and most of them can’t imagine the world without it. …
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