Sunday, September 27, 2009

Birthdays


It's celebration time for the internet. On September 24, 1979, the bare-bones version of CompuServe was launched. Here's an early ad:

And if that doesn't completely crack you up by the "gee-whiz" of it all, this will:




Doesn't it seem like there's ALWAYS been the internet? As someone who can remember life pre-internet (even pre-TV!), anniversaries like this stop me in my tracks to take a look back and try to remember what it was like to not have every bit and byte of information at my fingertips.

Today, Google celebrates its 11th birthday (cute logo!) and as a lover of all things Google (who better to take over the world?), I'm again stunned to remember that there hasn't always been Google--and that it's only 11 years old!!!!! Really, what did we do before all of this?????

So, Happy Birthday, Internet! Can't wait to see what you bring in 11 more years.

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