Happy 35th birthday, Internet! Or isn't it that happy?
censorship and monopolisation are party poopers " The internet is just a passing fad". Bill Gates in 1995
It's the internet's birthday. 35 years ago, in 1989, the world wide web was rolled out. Allow me to take you back to 1989, when we took the first steps on the internet. We struggled on the Internet via the telephone with a dial-up modem that first made that strange triiiiiet kdzooindkdzooing sound before you could contact your 'internet provider.', which was a completely new business at the time.
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