50 years ago, on October 29 1969, a packet was sent between two computers — one at UCLA and the other at Stanford Research Institute — on the ARPANET. This doesn’t sound hugely exciting, but it was first step in the creation of the Internet.

In the half century since then, the world has transformed beyond recognition. The arrival of the World Wide Web in 1991 showed what the Internet could be and ultimately changed everything, bringing us online shopping, up to the minute news, social networking, and more.

We now have powerful smartphones that let us access the web and streaming services like Netflix and Spotify from anywhere, on Wi-Fi and 4G/5G, and who knows what the future will bring?

Vint Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google was one of the architects of the modern Internet and today, to mark the start of things, he reveals what he considers to be the most important milestones in the history of the Internet.

In case anyone has missed it, Borderlands 3 is set to be released on the 13th of September, and with its release coming up soon I’m just wondering how many of y’all would be interested in playing after it has been released and whether it is something we could make a ‘games night’ out of??

https://borderlands.com/en-US/game-info/

Thanks

Hello everybody. It must be 6 months or so since the last fun night. If you’re keen for another, please reply below advising of preferred game/s and date and we’ll see what can be worked out.

Have fun,

chipper

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Members of Team IPX For Date Friday 23 August at 8:00pm

Star Trek fans briefly turned into Internet archaeologists today after CBS posted, then quickly took down, the first trailer for Star Trek: Picard.

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