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This tongue-in-cheek internet history timeline came in over a listserv last night. It's not as funny as I would hope, but it might be worth checking out. What is funny and informative is Barry Wellman's "My Forty Years of HCI," which I've been meaning to post for over a year now. Here's a sample:

When we were undergrads, my friend Tom and I went to the bursar's office to pick up our scholarship checks. Tom was about to fold his check and put it in his wallet, when I said, "Oh, you shouldn't fold checks like that."
"Really, why not?"
"Oh, my dad repairs check-sorting machines, and he says that folding these checks lead to a lot of jams he has to fix."
Tom folded his check, and slyly said, "Well, I'm keeping your dad in a job."