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Friday, 17 September 2010

I think they might be confused.com

Confused.com's latest TV advertisement says that the internet is 'the most important invention of the 21st Century'.

The Most important Invention of the 21st Century




Do they not realise that not only did ARPANET start in 1969, TELNET in 1975, IPSS in 1978 and so on and so on until in 1989 and 1990 Compuserve, UUNET and JANET linked in with the nascent 'internet'; oh happy days when the internet was bulletin boards, newsgroups and the like. Now if Confused.com don't know that then surely they know that in 1991 CERN made the World Wide Web possible and thus what most consider the internet to be came into being. Indeed I was happily, albeit slowly, browsing the web using Mosaic and Netscape in the mid 1990s as well as via Compuserve and by the late 1990s I was using Internet Explorer. So was the internet invented this century or last?

So why are confused.com so confused.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I was thinking that aswell =P hence why i came snooping about if anyone noticed.

Thanks