While writing my last post about today’s discussion in the Internet Course, I stumbled upon this 1972 gem of a documentary by Steven King (not that Steven King) about the formation of ARPANET. It’s 30 minutes long and features many of the minds behind the internet, including J.C.R. Licklider, Donald Davies, Larry Roberts, Fernando J. Corbatò, and several more. This is an awesome discovery, and given its on the Internet Archvie it’s most likely in the public domain and feely distributed and re-used. Yay!!! This might prove to be a nice resource for next week when we focus on the History of the Internet more intently as we build out a resource around it.
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Jim, you made my night. That was like discovering an old home movie because even though I never knew those people personally I knew all their names. Their vision to see what was coming (especially Licklider – he was 25 years ahead of everyone) is just astonishing. Thank you thank you for finding this!
I loving hearing Licklider talk abotu this stuff, especially after we discussed his impact on the development of the Internet earleir that day. It’s like his ideas come that much mroe to life. Serendipity is the most beautiful part of the web.
So I decided to poke around the Internet Archive – here’s one a found – https://archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987 Alan Kay walks you through the early history of the user interface including great demos of Sketchpad and the Xerox Parc Alto.
I can;t wait to watch this, these early “home videos” of computer pioneers could be its very own genre 🙂
OK Jim, I’m now spending too much time combing the Internet Archives and I found this – a 30 minute TV piece on the Internet made in 1993, and featuring an interview with… oh, don’t let me spoil it for you, but someone you know appears about 20 minutes in… https://archive.org/details/episode_1134 – this is right at the dawn of the Web (there’s a brief mention of Mosaic) and the beginnings of Internet video conferencing and podcasting (referred to as “Internet Radio”)
This is not Internet specifically, but it’s from 1972, it’s very related, and contains these excellent lines:
http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html
quick, where can I find 20 crummy speakers?
OK Jim, I’m now spending too much time combing the Internet Archives and I found this – a 30 minute TV piece on the Internet made in 1993, and featuring an interview with… oh, don’t let me spoil it for you, but someone you know appears about 20 minutes in… https://archive.org/details/episode_1134 – this is right at the dawn of the Web (there’s a brief mention of Mosaic) and the beginnings of Internet video conferencing and podcasting (referred to as “Internet Radio”)
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