MDBCs 29 Oct 2024

Can you imagine a world without the Internet? Without instant access to streaming movies, videos of kittens to make your day brighter, online shopping, and instant messaging?

The holiday encourages people to celebrate the Internet and to acknowledge that it has revolutionized how we communicate, gather knowledge and share information with each other. And yes, also how we waste our time.

The First Network Message

The unofficial holiday commemorates the very first electronic message sent over a network. On October 29, 1969, a UCLA Computer Science Professor and his staff sent the message “LO” over the telephone network to be received at Stanford University.

It is also known as World Internet Day or International Internet Day.

How to Celebrate?

Honor the internet and all those who have worked hard to create and maintain it on Internet Day. Here are some ways to celebrate this day:

Learn more about the history of the Internet.
Send everyone you know a Happy Internet Day message. Over the Internet of course.

Did You Know…

…that it took 20 years after the message was sent for the World Wide Web to be invented? Tim Berners-Lee, a software engineer at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland created the precursor the World Wide Web in 1989.

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Q: What do Thanksgiving and Halloween have in common?

A: One has gobblers, the other goblins.

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Asked to write a composition entitled, "What I'm thankful for on Thanksgiving,"

Little Johnny wrote, "I am thankful that I'm not a turkey."

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Q: What did the mother turkey say to her disobedient children?

A: If your father could see you now, he'd turn over in his gravy

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The skeleton cried his eyes out because he didn't have any body to love.

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Q: What happened to the pirate ship that sank in the sea full of sharks?

A: It came back with a skeleton crew!

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Q: Mummy, why do all the other kids call me a hairy werewolf?

A: Now stop talking about that and brush your face!

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Q: How can you tell when a vampire has been in a bakery?

A: All the jelly has been sucked out of the jelly doughnuts.

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Q: The maker of this product does not want it, the buyer does not use it, and the user does not see it.

What is it? A: A coffin.

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While in Kuwait, shortly before we deployed to Iraq, a major general told our meeting that we should  expect to cross “into Iraq in less than 24 hours.”

He then opened the floor to questions.

A lieutenant stood up and asked, “Is that 24 hours our time or 24 hours their time?”