And so the Internet reaches the age of maturity – a splendid 40 not-out. On October 29 1969, the first Arpanet network connection between remote computers was established. Arpanet was, as any fule kno, the military precursor to what we now know as the internet (the term “internetting” would not be coined until 1977).

At 10.30pm precisely, the first message was sent over the Arpanet between the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute by student Charley Kline. The message itself was the word “login”. The “l” and the “o” transmitted without problem but then the system crashed. So, trivia fans, the first message transmitted over the internet was “lo”.

Little did anyone realise that this unsung event would trigger the start of the largest porn stash known to mankind, interspersed by the occasional irreverent political blog or two. You’d have hoped that if Charley Kine had known what he was starting he would have pulled the plug out of the back pretty sharpish and gone straight to the pub.