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The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon. The Apollo 8 mission was the first crewed spacecraft to circumnavigate the Moon.

"Return to the Moon" Artemis Ⅱ 2026

3, 2, 1 – liftoff!

The Artemis II Moon rocket lifted off from our Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT on April 1, 2026. Our live launch day coverage continues on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo

Saying his advocacy for consuming animal products had painted a target on his back, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed Monday that anti-protein extremists had left a head of lettuce on his doorstep. “Yesterday morning when my wife went out to get the paper, she discovered a gruesome threat left by radical herbivores attempting to intimidate me,” a visibly shaken Kennedy said at a press conference, adding that the FBI was processing the head of iceberg lettuce for fingerprints and would investigate the incident as an act of suspected anti-protein terrorism.

No, in the sense that my parents didn't monitor what sites I went to with any tools and the only time limits were just because we had only one computer and it had to be shared between siblings. So, like, if my brother and sister didn't want to go online too there wasn't a limit.

I had my own computer in my room (it had been my dad's but since my mom had paid for it when they split up he "gave it to me" I'm assuming under pressure from her). At that time it was the only computer we had. I think it was maybe a year or so later we got our first non-mac and that lived in the livingroom.

But that is to say for about a year I didn't have any insight over what I did online. The only "restriction" I had was that we only had one phone line so I couldn't be online all the time until after 8pm when my mom wasn't going to answer the phone anyways.

Now in theory I was supposed to be in bed by 9... but again the computer was in my room.

Things changed some when we got the other computer (I still have violent hatred in my heart for that Compaq to this day). We still only had one phone line and my mom had a daycare in the house so during the day and in the early evenings internet was limited to half hour chunks with an hour in between. After dinner was internet time and I could do pretty much whatever I wanted except that my younger brothers would be running around and my mom was probably also in the livingroom watching TV.

I'm 50 years old. We had computers in the house, yes. I played on those computers, yes. But the internet that everyone recognizes did not come into existence until the mid 1990s and it was called The World Wide Web. Before that, the internet was all text, with esoteric commands that did mysterious things. But now, you could see images! And links that took you to other places! And it was *fascinating*!

In the early 80s it, there were multiple (inter)networks that weren't globally interconnected. So in some contexts, folks would say "the internet" meaning "the network we connect to here", while in other contexts they'd say "an internet", meaning one of multiple extant (inter)networks. Probably the most obvious of these was ARPANET, and even here there's not a single clear beginning - a commonly cited one is its adoption of TCP/IP in 1983, i.e. when it became the type of network that ultimately became the globally interconnected internet, but ARPANET existed well before then.

We didn't really get a single entity called the Internet until 1989, when that level of global interconnection was reached, with connections between Asia, North America, and Europe. That doesn't mean every network was connected, though; It took a few years more, into the early 90s (and the world wide web) for it to get standardized enough that you could really confidently say there was just one Internet.

And to make it more complicated, Usenet was separate from all of that! ARPANET was primarily accessible to researchers and academics. Usenet was more generally accessible and decentralized; you weren't connecting to a server to see the content offered by that server, you were connecting to one server of many that propagated content back and forth. There could certainly be ways for data to get between Usenet and ARPANET, but they were not the same network or the same networking protocols. In any case, some pretty fundamental differences between Usenet and what we eventually called the Internet.

So, in a colloquial "a (sufficiently lucky) person use a computer to access content from elsewhere" sense, yeah, the internet definitely existed well before the 90s. On the other hand, in the partially colloquial partially technological sense of there being just one Internet, one thing one might want to connect one's computer to, it genuinely didn't exist until the late 80s to early 90s.

"[...] he believes that athletes are entitled to do what they wish with their own bodies, and that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is corrupt for exploiting them."