A people's history of the internet: from Arpanet in 1969 to today
A people's history of the internet: from Arpanet in 1969 to today
To mark the 40th anniversary of the first stirrings of the internet we asked you to tell us your experiences of life online. Hundreds of you responded, and here we present an interactive documentary of your stories and videos, alongside our own research and interviews with key figures (About this project)
Why does so much interesting stuff happen when there's a nine in the year? This year it's been the anniversary of the start of WWII (70 years), my own half century (7th May 1959), the Apollo moon landings (40 years); the world-wide web and the fall of the Berlin wall (20 years) and now the Internet (40 years on October 29th). To celebrate the latter, The Guardian has published a number of articles, including this fascinating interactive time line, and we can be pretty sure that there'll be more to come over the next week or so. (Of my own anniversary, the least said the better!)
