The Internet started in 1969 which is relatively recently.  And everyday I have to pinch myself when I look at this little laptop computer I am typing on right now as I enter this AMOEBLOG and think about how simply amazing both the compact powerful electronic device and the limitless online world it opens me up to are. Just to think how effortless it is for me and my fellow AMOEBLOGGERS to log on from anywhere, at anytime, and  post text, images, video, and links to other websites here on this website - and do so instantly!

The capabilities of this technology are just mind-blowing to me and I don't think I will ever take them for granted.  Especially when I think about them in terms of  the history of mankind and realize just how very very recent all of these technological advances are; it's all in the past two or three decades that we have made such advances with the most widespread (in terms of  near everyone jumping online with their own computers) all been in the past decade.  

The above video, which is worth watching, is a lecture by Ethan Zuckerman in which he neatly traces a concise history of the Internet and puts it all in perspective noting that much of the creations came about in the years 1979 - 1982 with such other key years/events as the following:

1965: first form of Email
1969: the Internet is born
1975: first Emailing lists
1978: first BBS (Bulletin Board Systems)
1990: world wide web arrives
1997: weblogs