1991: First web page created
1991: First web page created
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1991 brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created and, much like the first email explained what email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was.

The Internet In 1996
The Internet In 1996
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In 1996, the Internet Archive began archiving the web for a service called the Wayback Machine. They’ve now archived 55 billion web pages. That’s enough web pages that if you were to print them all out using your roommate’s printer while he was at class and tape them end-to-end, you could reach the moon and back 28 trillion times.

I decided to peruse the Wayback Machine’s earliest archives to see what the internet looked like in 1996, when I was 14 and evidently had much less free time than I do now. Much to my chagrin, few websites from these early years have been successfully archived, and many of the best preserved ones were created by fast food and soft drink corporations because they were some of the earliest adapters of the internet. They viewed the medium as a chance for inexpensive advertising and invested dozens upon dozens of dollars into it. The results are tremendously humiliating.

Justin Timberlake, Hilary Duff, Tila Tequila MySpace profiles compromised to impress hacker group
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A person wanting to impress a hacker group broke into the popular MySpace profiles of several celebrities, including Justin Timberlake and model and MTV personality Tila Tequila, researchers said today.

The hacker, who uses the handle “Tesla,” gained access late Wednesday into the profiles of Timberlake, Tequila and actress-singer Hilary Duff, and used the compromised accounts to blast out bulletins to the celebrities’ tens of thousands of MySpace friends, said Chris Boyd, senior director of malware researchFaceTime Security Labs.

The messages, which appeared to come from the Hollywood stars themselves, proclaimed support for a hacker group known as Kryogeniks.

One read: “Hey Tesla here. Justin Timberlake has been hacked by me. HTTP://kryogeniks[dot]org. Cheers [expletive].”

Kryogeniks Hacker Who Took Comcast Offline Pleads Guilty to Crime
Kryogeniks Hacker Who Took Comcast Offline Pleads Guilty to Crime
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Christopher Allen Lewis, the hacker from a telephone hacking group called Kryogeniks, has pleaded guilty for taking Comcast's web site offline in May of 2008. Lewis is facing a charge that could land him in prison for five years and a $250,000 fine after his guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to intentionally damage a protected computer system. The case is being tried in.....

Flashback to 1995
Flashback to 1995
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Flashback to 1995: AOL Proggies By Marco on April 19, 2004 Inspired by a discussion on the Something Awful Forums, I remembered the time I spent using AOL in middle school. There were these programs ("proggies") that would hook into the AOL software and allow you to do special things, like easily type using color-faded text or extended ASCII characters. I had one of these.....

AIM Clone [Read Me]
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***PUT ON WORD WRAP IF NOT ON!*** Anyway, thanks for downloading yet another annoying version of the 'cloned' AIM. This is for the new Beta AIM version 2.01.1056 with file transfer capabilities. It will allow you to run a total of five AIM clients (exe's) at once. That means five names. That means being really annoying if you want to. Ah well...I made it again.....
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