I’ve seen a few decent writeups on the History of the Internet, but this short video crams a working history into about 8 minutes that anyone can follow.
Now, it will start using some funky technical terms like TCP and IP, but they introduce it in such a way that I think almost anyone can understand it. Give it a listen.
And don’t forget to check out The World Wide Web Circa 1994 and the “Ancient” Internet TV News Special from 1993 if you didn’t see those before. I find the olden days fascinating. :-)
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Hello
The video is really nice. I just read a few posts and you are a GENIUS dude…
Thanks
Karan
Wooooow, great stuff. Little non animated but gets the point threw. No routers required in the future I think.
I’m not sure if you all remember the Texas Instrument “Speak and spell” I take it out every so often and think how far we have come. I think My Dad bought that in 1979. It was the big thing back then. Great Video Made my day.
Back in the late 80′s I was selling the idea of TCP/IP as a networking protocal into corporates still using proprietory protocols. I wish I’d had this video then, it would have saved me an hour at least!