How we got the modern Internet

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• DJ

  @djangounhinged7634 · 3 years ago

  I worked for DEC in the '90's.  The local state government invited us and other tech vendors to a "technology update day for local politicians" to showcase new technologies..... in 1994 or 1995 from memory. We decided to showcase the growth of commercial uses of the internet and show the politicians the Web .....and Mosaic (at that stage unknown to any of them).   Across from our stand was a competitor showing off Dragon Dictate - via some very attractive blonde ladies with headsets.  Needless to say - 95% of the politicians pretended to be enthralled by Dragon Dictate - with barely a politician staying more than 5 minutes with us to find out about the existence of the Internet - typical, but so sad really.....

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• TH

  @TheBasementChannel · 3 years ago

  I love the fact the early internet was able to be displayed by hand drawn diagrams.

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• KO

  @Koruvax · 3 years ago

  That was more thorough than I thought would squeeze into 30-odd minutes, and I learned something! <3

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• LA

  @lawrencedoliveiro9104 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r03AIGRmRAM&amp;t=89">1:29</a> “’Ere ... didn’t you kill my brother?”

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• FU

  @FuKungGrip · 10 months ago

  Not a single Indian around when the Internet was created.

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• CL

  @Clavichordist · 3 years ago

  I worked for a couple of companies that dealt with BBN. One of them was a TELCOM provider that made &quot;high speed&quot; modems during the 1980s and the other made TEMPEST terminals and retrofitted other equipment to TEMPEST standards for them.

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• LA

  @lactobacillusprime · 3 years ago

  Thanks for creating this overview. Been online ever since the late 80s, early 90s at Uni and lived through quite a fair bit of it myself. But the very start of it was a lot of new information for me.

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• SA

  @Savagetechie · 3 years ago

  Great video, filled in lots of bits I didn&apos;t know. Really enjoy your content.

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• LE

  @LeRainbow · 3 years ago (edited)

  I felt like I was driving through Hoboken watching this video, which I enjoyed. :shelterin: Thanks. :videocall:

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• MA

  @mahb-i1y · 3 years ago

  Minor point, thanks for being nice to people like Elizabeth, means a lot to see a Youtuber supportive in multiple videos of our historical figures.<br><br>Second, when I was studying ipv6 they mentioned ipv6 bridges which I think will help a lot of the issues that we have with ipv4 adoption.

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• VI

  @vintcerf7795 · 3 years ago

  This is a pretty well researched video. I would like to draw attention to Steve Crocker who led the Network Working Group while a graduate student at UCLA that developed NCP, FTP, TELNET and other application protocols. Crocker introduced the Request for Comments series of notes documenting the work. Jon Postel became the editor of the RFC series and the &quot;Numbers Czar&quot; (eventually the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority). Jon led the effort to create what is now the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers but passed away in Sept 1998 just as the organization was being formed. David Clark at MIT became the chief Internet architect when I left ARPA late in 1982 to join MCI, and Bob Kahn, at that time director of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) of ARPA, continued to manage the effort from the ARPA perspective. Clark served for many years as the chairman of what is now called the Internet Architecture Board but started as the &quot;Internet Configuration Control Board&quot; while I was still at IPTO running the program. There are hundreds of others deserving mention (see authors of all the RFCs). Speaking of which, Bob Braden and Joyce Reynolds were able assistants to Jon and carried on his work after he passed away. Danny Cohen, David Reed and Jon Postel were instrumental in arguing for splitting TCP into TCP/IP in aid of real-time applications such as packet voice, or packet video or real-time tracking.

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• NA

  @nasabear · 3 years ago

  Great video! I live in the Washington, DC, area and there were several IMPs and TIPs around here. If you knew the right people, you could get the dial up phone number for the Mitre TIP or the Pentagon TIP. I used these to access a free account on MIT-AI, a PDP-10, over the ARPANET. Fun times. &nbsp;On a production note, I discourage the use of background music with vocals; they can be very distracting.

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