Celebrating the Internet’s 50th Birthday — 5 Decades of Hardware that Shaped the Way We Browse

Mike Kavalchuk
Nov 6 · 6 min read

Lets take a look back at the past five decades and consider just how much technology has improved when it comes to how we use the internet.

A common scenario for accessing the internet, 00’s to the 20's

On October 29, 1969, the first successful message was sent over ARPANET, the predecessor to what we now know as the World Wide Web. It’s hard to believe that the…

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