Internet Timeline:
A few milestones in the history of the internet:
- 1972 - Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniack get stoned out of their minds and build a computer that costs a fortune and runs no software. “Everyone will want one of these!”, says Jobs.
- 1978 - Dan Bricklin invents the spreadsheet. It will be 5 more years before anyone knows what they’re for, and another decade before anyone knows how to use them.
- 1992 - Mosaic - the first major web browser - is released. Users complain that it should support animated gifs, or at least a BLINK tag. Yeah, that would look AWESOME!
- 1995 - Support for animated .GIF files and MIDI music on webpages becomes widespread. “Make it stop! MAKE IT STOP!”, scream users.
- 1997 - Internet introduced to businesses. Worker productivity up 35%; internet Porn introduced to businesses. Worker productivity down 97%; Scam e-mails replace oil as the chief export of Nigeria.
- 2000 - EPA warns that entire surface of the earth will be completely blanketed with AOL CDs by the end of 2007
Well worth a few laughs after a tough day at the office, check it out. [via one.point.zero]
