The internet is 40 years old now , at least if you count its progenitor ARPANET, the government project that first switched packets between two computer hosts.
The internet bubble. How did millions of us wind up hunched over laptops for a living instead of doing something useful? Thank the massive flow of venture capital in the late 1990s to every black-jacket-and-black-t-shirt entrepreneur who promised the next Amazon and all its riches to whoever believed in his cocktail-napkin dreams. Thence came UrbanFetch, Pets.com, and the eTrade "Well, we just wasted two million bucks" Super Bowl ad, which we believe defined the era and ruined our lives.
A lot of digital water has flowed under the bridge since then, and we take this opportunity to celebrate the medium and its 10 greatest achievements.
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