A very brief and clear history of the interweb!

T'internet is celebrating its 40th birthday, allegedly, and there is some good stuff out there.
Your man John Naughton has a very clear and interesting podcast.
You may claim that you don't understand all this stuff and it does not effect you.
In the same way there was some worthy German burgher laughing his socks off hysterically when he saw the first printing press. You can imagine his words when he had it explained that it was used to press sheets of paper which were then bound into books. It'll never catch on. What will all those monks do? I don't want my son reading books. I certainly don't want my daughter reading books, I don't want my daughter reading, full stop!