A historical diversion
The Lemon has a hit-and-miss satirical Internet history up. Although the humour is patchy, the timeline is pretty accurate. The obligatory swipe at blogging was uninspired:
"1999: Blogging invented. Promises to change the way people bore strangers with banal anecdotes about their pets"
but some other entries were funnier:
"1995: Real Audio released, allowing users to listen to halting bursts of static in real time.1996: Parenting groups become concerned that spending extended time online is depriving children of important time spent watching television.
2000: EPA warns that entire surface of the earth will be completely blanketed with AOL CDs by the end of 2007"
For the more refined taste, Google has a real history of Usenet, which is in many ways funnier. Usenet newsgroups were around long before the Web provided a more immediate source of idle geek trivia and downloadable images of one's favourite album covers.
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