The History of the Internet

The History of the Internet

The internet as we use it today has gone through a lot of development and has come a long way since its humble military beginnings. The timeline really shows how slowy but sure, the little bits and pieces were put together to make the internet even better. The article is a bit dated, since its data was compiled in 1997, but it still gives a pretty thorough history of the internet. It also names all of the organizations involved, such as DARPA and CERN and it tells you what all of the acronyms stand for. Although I'm suprised NAMBLA wasn't involved in any way. Still it was a very informative article and it seems we take the internet for granted and disregard how far it has advanced.

New Pain-Inducing Advil Created For People Who Just Want To Feel Something, Anything | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

New Pain-Inducing Advil Created For People Who Just Want To Feel Something, Anything | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals unveiled a new pain-causing line of Advil this week that will help millions of benumbed, hollow consumers to feel at least somewhat alive for up to four hours.

Haha emos. The Onion is quickly becoming one of my favorite sites

American Airlines Now Charging Fees To Non-Passengers | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

American Airlines Now Charging Fees To Non-Passengers | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Cash-strapped American Airlines announced a new series of fees this week that will apply to all customers not currently flying, scheduled to fly, or even thinking about flying aboard the commercial carrier

I thought this was pretty funny. Airlines these days keep piling on the charges and subcharges.

Robots Created That Develop And Display Emotions And Become Attached To Certain People

Robots Created That Develop And Display Emotions And Become Attached To Certain People:

"ScienceDaily (Nov. 25, 2008) — Robots that develop and display emotions as they interact with humans, and become attached to them, will be exhibited at the ICT’08 event organized by the European Commission in Lyon next week."

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Cutting the Cheese in Class Leads to Tween’s Arrest

Cutting the Cheese in Class Leads to Tween’s Arrest

Once the preferred communication technique of young boys everywhere, farting in class may be headed the way of dodgeball and smoking in the boys room as one Florida 12-year-old got the cuffs slapped on him for disrupting his classroom

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