Has no one else remembered that today is the 25th birthday of the WWW?
 

Old enough to drink. 

Remember the Maine

What's the MMM?
 
(Oops, sorry.  Had my monitor upside down again.  )

Jeez, how old does that make me? Anybody else remember what a peaceful place the internet used to be before the world wide web came along?

Yep... 

Oh well, we all age.
 

How do I get some or this 'internet'?
 
Once I have it, will it make sound like John Lennon?
 
Will anyone complain if I have it?
 
Do I have to have nine wives to use it?
 
Will my pono play the internet for me?
 
How may floppies do I need to download the internet?
 
Was the original internet better than the cover internet?
 
Does the internet has dinner ready for me?
 
Will Straummy do a picture of the internet in photoshop with all it's words?
 
Will Beagle come back if we give him the internet?
 
 

Happy Birthday, World Wide Web! Gopher says, "Hi!"
 
In this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet, there's a description of the first ARPANET communication back in 1969. 
 
"We set up a telephone connection between us and the guys at SRI ...", Kleinrock ... said in an interview: "We typed the L and we asked on the phone,
"Do you see the L?""Yes, we see the L," came the response.We typed the O, and we asked, "Do you see the O.""Yes, we see the O."Then we typed the G, and the system crashed ..." 
 
The more things change...

Sounds about right!
 
I still remember when we got an upgraded acoustic coupler (meant for those old-style corded phone handsets).  It could do 110 BAUD, but if you whistled into the phone at 4,200 Hz (might have been 4,400 Hz, can't remember) you could sometimes get a higher pitch then you slammed the phone into the coupler and wildly started alternately pressing [Return] & [Linefeed] in hopes of getting a login prompt to print at 300 BAUD (yes, print - there were no monitors, just a teletype that didn't have lowercase).  Ah, those lovely time-share memories...
 
Although I can't recall exactly which value is correct, I can still whistle at that pitch.  This was a very useful thing back in the 70's since it allowed you to use any pay phone without putting in your dime.  You just picked up the receiver, whistled into the phone and, if the pitch was correct, you'd get a dial-tone and off you went.