1，最大的功绩是在清末军阀割据的乱世中，领导北伐战争，统一了乱世中的中国。在这里有个前提，那就是当时中国的混乱程度在中国史上是罕见的。北伐其实都是极为成功的，从北伐后的结果就能看到–中国的军阀数量大大减少，混乱程度得到了很好的控制，基本实现了统一。蒋介石的军事才能确实不如毛泽东，但对付其它的军阀还是没有什么问题的。这就使得民族凝聚力大大增强了，提升了中国在国际社会的地位。

2，在中国推行一系列行之有效的经济政策，富国强民，取得了很大的成果。蒋介石承继的” 烂摊子”并不比1949年好到哪里。毛、周没有陈年旧债，国民政府定都南京，却承担历届北京政府累积的六亿六千七百万美元债。而且当时中国只是表面上的统一，南京政府控制的国家资源极其有限，而且必须将其大量花费在”统一政令，统一军令”的”军阀战争”之中。

蒋介石进行国民经济建设运动，推行“法币政策”，自1935年底发行法币，建立公债债券的威信，同时积极清偿外债。到抗战前夕，已经偿还百分之九十外债。中国债券在伦敦市场节节上扬，价格超过日本的债券，这是李登辉政权以及其它国民党派系所不愿面对的史实。法币本来是为了对付英、日、美货币在大萧条期间相继贬值，以及美国以高价抢购中国百姓白银等等事件的武器，威信建立以后，行使地方钞票的省份也纷纷改用法币。这也为8年抗战胜利奠定了物质基础。法币制度是中日战争的充要条件，迅速发展的法币构成中国统一的基础，没有法币，抗战军费便无由筹措。

3，大力推广文化教育事业，北大，清华，西南联大等学术活动十分活跃。尤为值得回味的是，在抗日战争爆发以后，蒋介石政府首先考虑的是保护学校和教育事业不致中断，帮助面临日寇侵略城市的学校南迁。在日寇轰炸重庆时，当局的首要任务，便是及时疏散中小学师生。早年他担任黄埔军校校长，为建立革命军队，培养军事骨干力量做了一定工作。

4，在内忧外患，极度艰难的情况下，稳固了边疆，巩固了中央政府的统治，避免了国家分裂。当时的东北内外蒙古新疆西藏，均有外国背景。蒋介石加强对蒙古西藏地方的治理，国民政府于1929年设立蒙藏委员会，主管蒙藏等少数民族地区行政事务。1938年9月24日，颁布喇嘛转世办法计13条，明确规定达赖喇嘛、班禅额尔德尼、哲木尊丹巴呼图克图暨各处向来转世之呼图克图、诺门汗、班第达等圆寂后，应报由该管地方最高行政机关转报蒙藏委员会备案；转世灵童访获后，报由该管地方最高行政机关转报蒙藏委员会查核分别掣签等等。1928年国民政府把四川的西部和西藏东面的康部, 建立为一新省, 名西康省。1928年9月国民党中央政治会议第153次会议决议，9月17日发布命令，将宁夏、青海分别建为行省。1929年1月，青海正式建省，以西宁为省会。其中尤以青海建省意义最大，向南配合西康省影响西藏局势，向西可前进新疆。苏德战争爆发后，蒋介石派军入疆，架空盛世才，新疆终于重回中国怀抱。

5，以中华民族领袖的身份领导中国人民与日本侵略者进行殊死斗争，并派四十余万远征军两次入缅作战，为缅甸独立解放及世界反法西斯战争作出了巨大贡献。

抗日战争我就不多说了，蒋介石曾对向他传达与日和谈的孔祥熙这样批示:说以后如果再有人利用“汪逆伪组织”来劝我跟日本人谈判，怎么办？前面五个字，以汉奸论罪。下面还有更厉害的三个字，杀无赦!!毛泽东在1938年的中国共产党六届六中全会上有个讲话，毛说：“假如没有国民党政策的转变，要建立抗日民族统一战线，是不可能的。”他说，蒋是“民族领袖”，“最高统帅”，说国民党前后有两个伟大的领袖，第一个是孙中山，第二个呢？就是蒋介石。只是后来国共斗争，这些就没人提了。本人在此再次重申，蒋介石领导的国民政府军才是抗战的主要力量，牵制日军70%的兵力，消灭了大量的日军。这为中国的民族独立做出了巨大贡献。出兵缅甸，在维护中国利益的同时，赢得了良好的国际声誉，为我国在二战后的大国地位奠定了良好的基础。

6，废除了晚清所签署的一系列的不平等条约，收回了东北、台湾及澎湖列岛的主权，以一积弱之国而成为世界反法西斯四大领袖国之一，1946年联合国成立后中国成了五常之一，争得了举世公认的荣耀。开罗宣言这一收回主权和领土的协议就是蒋介石政府在国际社会极力斡旋的成果。

7，蒋介石一生都坚定地维护中国领土的统一和完整，后来虽然是退守台湾，但他始终把台湾当成中国的一部分，尽管要把台湾作为反攻大陆的基地，但与李登辉、陈水扁卖国贼，欺宗忘祖之流不可同日而语的。在越南印度侵害中国主权时，还拍案而起，大喝一声：“娘希匹，大陆不出兵我出兵”，可见他骨子里的爱国主义。也正是由于蒋介石的坚定的认为大陆和台湾是不可分割的中国整体，才在很大程度上使得台湾更好的延续了中华民族的传统，长久以来都未改变对自身是中国一部分的认识。这样也利于今后祖国统一大业的顺利进行！！

回眸历史，沧海桑田，蒋介石是无愧于华夏的，他只不过是在与毛泽东争夺天下时落了下风，我们不应忘记他对中华民族所作的杰出贡献，特此志之，并热切希望看到两岸统一的一天！

Thought: 可惜蒋介石武力指数相对还是太低，除了北伐战场，好像都是小胜打败。一场战争的失败，百年的历史被改写。其实人生又何尝不是如此，两个起步相当的人，一个机会的把握，导致10后天壤之别。年轻时一定要勇猛的抓住机会，人生如战场，需耐心养兵千日，关键战场绝不退让，血战到底。

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The internet is sort-of-40 this year. Not in the sense of aHollywood actor who is in reality much older but prefers to act vague, however. In the sense that if you set the October 1969 networking of US research universities through Arpanet as the start point then it is a significant birthday.

To mark this, we want to tell the internet’s story. This is not the first time this has been done and will not be the last, but we want to tell the story of the internet using the internet – that is, the people who use it.

Below there is a list of 30 events from the past 40 years – encompassing the technological development of the internet and some of the impact it has had on culture, business, politics and society. Some of that makes for entertaining reading – reaction to the first piece of spam (a US army major gets involved) or the 1982 conversation that led to the first use of the emoticon.

But these 30 events are not the only ones that mattered. There is no YouTube on here, nothing of Barack Obama’s use of the web for fundraising – and that is intentional. We’d like to know what you think is significant.

At the bottom of this page is a form where we would like you to nominate events memorable to you, be they ones we may already know about or something more personal such as the first websites you used or emails you sent. Our list is, for example, light on social media moments or internet dating. Or the thrill of a first Geocities site.

Maybe you did some of this pioneering work in the early days of the internet and want to talk about it. Whatever your experiences, we’d like to hear from you.

Where will it end? Well, this is a work in progress. But we will publish updates to the list and this autumn hope to produce an impressive told-by-the people version of the internet story

And here is the list of 30 …

1969	Arpanet starts	Computers at two academic departments in California are linked by Arpanet, the predecessor of the internet
1971	@	Ray Tomlinson devises electronic mail for arpanet. He settles on @ to separate the name of the user from the name of their computer
1971	Project Gutenberg	Michael Hart begins a project to make copyright-free works electronically available. The first text is the US Declaration of Independence, now archived as gutenberg.org/etext/1
1971	Expansion	The network is now connecting 23 hosts
1973	ARPAWOCKY	Early network humour: Twas brillig, and the Protocols / Did USER-SERVER in the wabe./ All mimsey was the FTP, / And the RJE outgrabe
1973	To Europe	Norway is connected to Arpanet via Norsar, a US-Norwegian network to relay information on earthquakes and nuclear explosions. From Norway, a connection goes to University College London
1974	TCP/IP	Vint Cerf and others publish a proposal to link up Arpa-like networks. It has no central control and is built around a protocol (TCP/IP) for the exchange of data
1976	Royal email	Queen Elizabeth sends her first email on a visit to the MoD’s scientific research hub
1978	Spam	Gary Thuerk sends what is now considered thefirst unsolicited commercial email. Major Raymond Czahor of the US defence communications agency assures Arpanet users it will not happen again
1978	Bulletin boards	The first bulletin board is developed during a particularly bad blizzard in Chicago. Ward Christensen’s creation allows computer users with a modem to talk to each other and exchange software and data
1982		Scott Fahlman proposes the use of  after a joke, beating off rivals including %, * and {#} – said to be ‘like two lips with teeth showing between them’
1983	Internet begins?	1 January is the cut-off point for computers to use Cerf’s transmission control protocol (TCP). Cerf estimates this involved between 200-400 hosts
1984	Lots more connections	The number of hosts breaks 1,000, Japan establishes Junet, the UK begins Janet (the joint academic network) and the Soviet Union connects to Usenet.
1984	The Well	It calls itself ‘the primordial ooze where the online community movement was born’. A Guardian profile of The Well’s co-founder Stewart Brand said it was ‘where most of the discoveries of cyberspace were first made’
1985	.com	The domain name that for many defines the web is created. The oldest .com registration still in existence belongs to Virginia-based Symbolics
1989	Start of the web	Tim Berners-Lee proposes to his bosses at Cern a document retrieval system to run on the internet. His mechanism will use hypertext to make a file in one location appear as if it is in a window on another
1990	Archie	Considered the first internet search engine, Archie is created by Canadian university student Alan Emtage. It allows users to match queries against file names (not the content of those files, that was still to come)
1990	Internet toaster	A toaster becomes the first remotely-operated machine connected to the internet. A single control – power on or power off – is used to control grilling. It still requires a human to insert the bread
1991	First web page published	The web goes public. Its first page explains it is a ‘wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative’
1991	Webcam coffee	A coffee pot in a Cambridge University computer lab is the inspiration for the world’s first webcam. It allows people in other parts of the building to avoid pointless trips when it is empty
1992	L0pht	The Boston-based hacker collective is founded
1994	Yahoo!	Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web is launched. In time it is renamed Yahoo!
1995	Amazon.com	The internet bookseller goes online. By the final quarter of 2001 it turns a profit – a little behind its plan for profitability within four to five years, but is still considered an exceptional dotcom performer
1996	Proto-Google	Larry Page and Sergey Brin, PhD students at Stanford, begin work on BackRub, a search engine that ranks websites according to the number of links to them. It is incorporated asGoogle in 1998
1999	‘Celestial jukebox’	Shaun Fanning’s Napster application launches. It allows users share music files on each others’ computers
1999	MI6 names leaked	The uncontrollable nature of the internet is brought to attention when the names of more than 100 MI6 agents are leaked to a US website. Despite being taken down, the names spread across other sites
2001	Wikipedia	It proclaims itself a collaborative encyclopedia. Eight years after launch it is now the most popular reference work online
2001	SETI@Home	A project to harness the distributed processing power of the internet gathers enough volunteers within four weeks to surpass the most powerful supercomputer of its time
2004	The war on spam	Bill Gates tells the World Economic Forum at Davos that spam will be erradicated within two years. It isn’t
2005	First spam conviction	Jeremy Jaynes sentenced to nine years in prison and his sister, Jessica DeGroot, fined $7,500
2006	Twitter	The 140 character service launches. Many who initially try it think it pointless. By 2009 it is credited with transmitting news of Iranian protests to the outside world

You may notice the launch of Twitter is the final item on this list. That is not to suggest that it is the final perfection of the internet (just to be clear).