Friday 11 November 2011

Tomorrow is 20 Years South Africans surfing the WWW

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Where would we be today without the interwebs? It’s too chilling a thought to process, I know. Still, let’s pause our abuse of the Seacom cable for a second and take stock:
Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of South Africa’s usage of the World Wide Web! While telecoms based communication had occurred to/from South Africa prior to 1991, the first communication via the TCP/IP protocol stack occurred at 10h44 on Tuesday, 12 November 1991.[2oceansvibe]

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