Happy birthday, internet

I completely missed the fact that the internet was 35 years old yesterday. My forgetfulness shows how ubiquitous the internet has become, I guess. Luckily, The Register did not forget:

"It was 35 years ago today that ARPANET, the military network widely regarded as the progenitor of the internet, was switched on. The Advanced Research Project Agency Network was a wide area network run by the US Department of Defense. It was used to test new networking technologies. It wasn't a communications protocol, as such, but made it possible for users to send and receive messages to and from the Interface Message Processor subnetwork."

Related links:
+ The Internet at 35: Still evolving (CNN)
+ A brief history of the Internet