After Bill Clinton and Angelina Jolie, Vanity Fair has at least one more enterprising story up its sleeve: The history of the Internet. "How the Web Was Won" is a blowjob piece to the web's pioneers — not that they aren't deserving of respect, but this article is pure link bait.

Why now? Because 50 years ago, the U.S. government set up ARPA, the precursor to the thing you use today to receive email forwards from your mother and find one-off sex partners. So it's very milestone-y.

And already, the critics are lashing about: "It’s going to be fairly easy to nitpick the list of companies included in the photo slideshow. No Google, for example. No Firefox, Yahoo or Microsoft. Nary a word on Facebook. Or any non-U.S. companies for that matter. And the history of computer networking and the Internet is, necessarily, somewhat abridged and leaves a lot of people out."

But we like the approach: Rather than have writers Keenan Mayo and Peter Newcomb comb through Lexis-Nexis tidbits and old email accounts, they're having the web's forefathers retell its history orally. Which makes for very nice photo spreads with pullquotes. Just very little to click on.