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Happy 20th birthday to the internet worm!

This weekend just gone marks the 20th birthday of the internet worm, which Robert Tappan Morris created on November 2nd 1988.

The Tangle That is Happy Birthday

Despite everyone’s carefree joy in singing Happy Birthday to You, this simple song puts you in legal jeopardy every time it exits your mouth.

Happy 250th Birthday Robert Burns

Scotland'sfavorite son, Robert Burns was born Jan 25th, 1759. He is renowned for his poetry and songs, many of which are popular to this day. Help celebrate his birthday by making some haggis and giving Davbob an upvote.

Cops sing happy birthday for thief

Police in Taiwan served a lonely man cake and sang happy birthday after arresting him for stealing a goose to celebrate on his own, an officer in charge said.

Happy Birthday To Suebe's First Husband, John Lennon

Today would have been John's 68th birthday. Yoko Ono explains a project launching this week in honor of John Lennon's birthday, the "Imagine Peace Tower" and a request for a prayer for peace.

Happy Birthday! (NSFW)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

17 People Who Changed the Internet Forever!

From its birth in the labs of Tim Berners-Lee back in 1992, to its interaction with the Napster in 1999, and its 2004 induction of Wikipedia: the Internet as we know it, has evolved drastically.

With the passage of time, people from amongst us have emerged with the craziest of ideas to test and enhance the potential of this God’s gift to mankind. And it is due to the efforts of these noble souls, that we have the entire world at the simple tap of our fingers.

*This list actually contains about 26 people with the updates.

Happy Birthday, International Space Station

20th November 1998 saw the deployment of the first part of the International Space Station. 10 years on, it is still not finished, the merits of the science it embodies are in question and today it transpires they've recently lost a spider and a tool bag.

But happy birthday, anyway.

11 Firsts In Internet History

Have you ever wondered what the first item sold on eBay was? Or who ran the first banner ad on the internet? Or what the first spam massage tried to sell?

<<--was the first image on the internet in 1992. It was uploaded by programmer Silvano de Gennaro in Geneva at the request of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.

7 Fun Sites You Can Only Find On The Gopher Internet

Yes, I said the Gopher Internet. No, I don' mean little rodent things. Sure, you probably haven't even heard of Gopher before. And who can blame you? It's a fading star, now only used by nostalgic geeks. But believe it or not, there's some cool stuff on the Gopher internet. Why limit yourself?

How To Be Happier With The Internet

The first in a series of (as yet unpublished) articles on how to be happier. This one deals with internet usage and behaviour. Useful advice.

Happy birthday Louis!

French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur was born 12/27/1822 pioneered the creation of vaccines for rabies, anthrax and helped developed pasteurization (he helped invent the method to stop milk and wine from causing sickness). Drink up!

Happy Birthday, Elvis!

One of the most infectious laughs ever! Celebrating the 73rd birthday of Elvis Presley with the laughing version of "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"

Please ignore cheesy wipes.

Happy Birthday Mao Tse-Tung!!

Were he alive today he would be 114. Here's a bit of information on the man. Cruel, sure; but he certainly played a major role in shaping our world.

Happy Birthday, Mao. (do you mind if I call you Mao? please don't have me executed)

Happy Birthday, The World Wide Web

13th March, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee laid out his thoughts on setting up a system of accessing a vast repository of knowledge from remote location.

From this paper, The World Wide Web was born.

Thinking about it, I don't think this is The World Wide Web's birthday. I think it's the anniversary of when Tim Berners-Lee got busy with The World Wide Web's momma.

Which was presumably a server or something.

Eeww.

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to the world as the beloved Dr. Seuss, was born in 1904 on Howard Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. Ted's father, Theodor Robert, and grandfather were brewmasters in the city. His mother, Henrietta Seuss Geisel, often soothed her children to sleep by "chanting" rhymes remembered from her youth. Ted credited his mother with both his ability and desire to create the rhymes for which he became so well known ....

Happy Birthday, Mr President

It's not just Darwin today, but as Bornbad was kind enough to give a shout out to a Great Brit born today I'm here doing the same by winging a huge chunk of birthday cake across the pond to one Mr Abraham Lincoln - 12th February 1809.

Now does anyone have his address. I know it's somewhere in Gettysburg.

Happy 20th birthday Mystery Science Theater 3000

Hard to believe that Mst3k is 20 years old. Read here about its beginnings in a small UHF Minneapolis-St. Paul station. The stars are still active here and here. Also see this

Happy birthday, Walkman! You don't sound a day over 30

On this day three decades ago, Sony's original blue-and-silver Walkman went on sale in Japan, launching an era of personal, portable music and generations of oblivious subway riders and pedestrians.

Happy 200th Birthday Charles Darwin(2/12/09)

It's hard to miss the celebrations this week of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, but unlike the life of Einstein, the public is remarkably ignorant of the real story of the father of evolution.
*However, here are some strange facts about Darwin*

Happy 63rd birthday to Mike the Headless Chicken

The unsuspecting bird had never looked so delicious as he did that, now famous, day. A skillful blow was executed and the chicken staggered around like most freshly terminated poultry. Then the determined bird shook off the traumatic event and never looked back.