<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4e0145e9-c974-46ad-b61e-77170292aa1e/6D50A36C-D003-4A2D-80AD-BE3D97E28E9B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/64B379DC-96EE-4F7A-BD11-EDE5CCA138A4" alt="Man holding up laptop displaying smiley face" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing">The <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/internet">internet</A> is sort-of-40 this year.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing">if you set the October 1969 networking of US research universities through <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET">Arpanet</A> as the start point then it is a significant birthday.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing">To mark this, we want to tell the internet's story. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing">Below there is a list of 30 events from the past 40 years – encompassing the technological development of the internet </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing">At the bottom of this page is a <A href="#form">form</A> where we would like you to nominate events memorable to you</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing"><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-0-0">1969 </TD><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-0-1">Arpanet starts </TD><TD class="last left" id="table-cell-2254-0-2">Computers at two academic departments in California are linked by Arpanet, the predecessor of the internet </TD></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing"><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-1-0">1971 </TD><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-1-1">@ </TD><TD class="last left" id="table-cell-2254-1-2">Ray Tomlinson devises <A href="http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html">electronic mail for arpanet</A>. He settles on @ to separate the name of the user from the name of their computer </TD></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing"><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-8-0">1978 </TD><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-8-1">Spam </TD><TD class="last left" id="table-cell-2254-8-2">Gary Thuerk sends what is now considered the <A href="http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html">first unsolicited commercial email</A>. Major Raymond Czahor of the US defence communications agency assures Arpanet users it will not happen again </TD></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing"><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-9-0">1978 </TD><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-9-1">Bulletin boards </TD></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing"><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-14-0">1985 </TD><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-14-1">.com </TD></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing"><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-15-0">1989 </TD><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-15-1">Start of the web </TD></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing"><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-23-0">1996 </TD><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-23-1">Proto-Google</TD></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/11/internet-computing"><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-28-0">2004 </TD><TD class="left" id="table-cell-2254-28-1">The war on spam </TD></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6D50A36C-D003-4A2D-80AD-BE3D97E28E9B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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