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- dangarion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Here is a more current picture of him.
http://www.bricklin.com/albums/lcs35/0a5072c0.jpg - willink, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24How come Al Gore isn't in the documentary?
- D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Actually, I did not find this on Google Video. I submitted it. Steven King gave me the original DVD transfer of the program recently and I wanted to share it with the internet.
- Vryz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16These guys are amazing. The basic structure of the net is still the same as they original design so many years ago. That's some smart design!
- Brak710101, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19That first guy interviewed...
Did geeks in 1972 look that bad? - buss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I would like to say thank you to the people in that video and others involved in the program. They changed the world. We should have a holiday that honors the people involved in the creation of the first computer networks and eventually the internet. They need some recognition.
- endgame, on 10/12/2007, -10/+21That was back in the day when America had cutting edge smart people. Now a days the U.S. does not have people like that any longer. We don't graduate high quality engineers like this any longer. Read "The World is Flat" great book. The next major Internet breakthrough will most likley come from India or China.....I'm not bashing these countries just stateing an opinion.
- g0dzilla, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19You couldn't be more wrong. Last time I checked, the United States is inventing more and more things. Sure, China and India have some brainiacs, but most of those brainiacs end up coming to the USA to fulfill their work, found their company, and make their fortune.
Unless you were worried in a 'racial' sense in that the next major inventions will come from a 'Chinese' or 'Indian' person, and if that is the case, I will leave you to your racist, bigotted, self-created hell. - leonbev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10That I liked was that one of the scientists was already working on voice recognition all the way back in 1972. Even 34 years later, that technology is STILL flaky :)
- D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I love the music at the beginning. :-P
- lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I don't know, but I'm sure he's in the documentary on the cryptographical algorithms. I mean, they're named "Al-Gore-rithms" for a reason, you know!
- XSforMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Not only that, some of these guys where describing actual inventions that came up 20-30 years later: electronic banking, digital libraries, some even went as far as to describe a distributed OS (still waiting for that).
Man I would have killed just to have one of these men teach me networking in college. One adjective kept crawling my head throughout the entire presentation: Prophets. - ARPAfan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Just registered to say ...
Great video, a gem in fact, for anybody who has read "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" which chronicles the "net" from its inception (and of course the part played by Bolt, Beranek and Newman).
On another topic it's a shame that while digg has interesting stories, it also has a membership who must be at least 90% (?) cretin judging some of the comments I've read here and for other stories. I feel sorry for the other 10% ... - diggduggditch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Hard to believe that was only just over 3 decades ago. I guess it's just because I'm so young... I think it's funny though that even the top tech guys at arpa and all those other super-important key players don't even have computers on their desks, just stacks of papers. I know of course it would've been rediculous to have one on your desk back then, I think it's just ironic.
- MrDolomite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10+dugg, funny and cool history
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Not at all, in fact, it was one of the greatest things ever thought up by mankind. The idea that we may have a library where people anywhere at any time could access anything they needed. Throughout history and every great civilization there have been such places that shared knowledge and arts freely for all. With the Internet we can share books, journals, papers, music, movies, and anything else we can think of freely with each other. This would have advanced the knowledge of mankind greatly should it have remained free (like a library).
Instead greedy people like the RIAA. the MPAA, book and journal publishers, etc want to control information and arts. This stagnant civilization we have now won't go anywhere until things change... - oblomov, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Fascinating piece. An almost completely altruistic approach to creating something that could (and did) change most of our lives in a revolutionary way. So refreshing to not hear some "suit" from the tel-cos whining on how someone is "getting a free ride on my pipe."
- modian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Mozart Horn Concerto No.1 In D, K.412, #1: Allegro
This is arguably the best recording:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000GCAD/sr=8-2/qid=1142709373/ref=sr_1_2/002-5345005-1953609?%5Fencoding=UTF8 - Godric, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I don't see why the parent's message was so controversial. Unless we improve our public education system, particularly in the areas of math and science, we will fall behind other countries. Also, our immigration and naturalization policies must be updated so that the foreign PhDs and MAs in engineering and the hard sciences that we educate here get automatic citizenship.
Otherwise we will fall behind another country, which will adversely affect our economic prosperity. - AganLex, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9My favorite quote from the show is "a husband might not want his wife know what his income is." Overall, the show is dated but kind of interesting anyway.
- 8ight, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9do you think the guy drew a pentagram on the chalkboard on accident ;-)
- retawd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6So, wait... the internet wasn't designed solely to ensure we could get fatty porn after WW3?
- XSforMe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7LOL! You really think that wireless is the future? I can hardly get a day through without a user bitching about a disconnect from the wireless network. As the spectrum gets more crowded (wireless networks, baby monitors, CV radios, etc) the less and less reliable wireless will become.
The plumbing demand from satellites and the continuous layout of fiber seems to vindicate my vision, and don't even get me started about the hideous latency times you get from going through a radio frequency based link.
Wireless will still have its niche, just don't kid yourself about a mission critical link going wireless. No sir, I still see lots of wires running in the future. - joeware, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Dear J.C.R. Licklider:
Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never give an interview on a windy day when wearing a combover! - ianam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The more fashionable of us wore bell bottoms, afros, and tie dye t-shirts.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Here you go: http://www.kmdi.toronto.edu/rmb/video/sos_recap.mov
- dognose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This totally reminds me of the filmstrip in LOST.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Point well proven - I'd say your comment pretty accurately illustrates the lack of quality education in the US. Back when I was in high school, they still taught spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure.
- kevin2735, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I could swear I saw the Dharma logo on a computer at 3:35, and did you catch the reference to the Hanson foundation?
- sgtunix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Interesting video!
Speaking of ancient videos about computers - can anyone tell me where you can
find a video called "Sorting out sorting" ? It was made probably 25 years ago by
Ronald Baecker from the University of Toronto. I suspect that given its age,
distributing it for free on the internet won't be..err.. frowned upon. ;) - kaleberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I had this argument with Nicholas Negroponte years ago. He didn't get time sharing either. It isn't about other people using your computer, it's about your computer doing multiple things for you. If you download files, listen to music, check your mail, run a network server, all while working on a text document, then you want your computer to be able to timeshare. XP is a timesharing system. UNIX and LINUX are timesharing systems. MacOSX is a timesharing system.
- 16x9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Like we're all that good looking now...
- phogster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Robert E. Kahn
http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/bios/kahn.html
oh what a difference 30+ years makes. - liquidjill, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Assuming your opinion is based on ignorance and not paranoia, then I implore you to read more then one book. Countries like India and China will help us all to move forward. One cannot blanket a statement about the intelligence or aptitude of an entire country without sounding like a fool.
Perhaps the lack of "cutting edge smart people" comment was a self reflection? - automagnus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Show some respect that guy helped create the internet.
- norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I bet there was a guy behind that ATM machine
- lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4We are starting to fall behind, but only in terms of rate, and not in terms of the number of "innovations" per year. What this means is just that the Asians are catching up, not that we (using "we" to signify the US, since I live here) are falling behind. It will still be a while before Korea/Japan/China/ is the new technological powerhouse.
Oh wait, did I just list Japan? Whoops, Japan is already the leader in tech. - kwilliam71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+430+ years ago. Can't wait until 30+ years from now when somebody digs up some old crap from today, say an episode of Screensavers or Diggnation. Awesome find!
- retawd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is what Digg should have every day. Very worthwhile Digg.
- artur.ventura, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Timesharing is a major milestone in Operating System development
- Larke2000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4porkchop sideburns = digg :)
- Computer_Kid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was waiting to hear:
"ARPNet and You, How computers will takeopver and we will become their pets!" - leonbev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The only difference is that 30 years from now no one is going to care about the latest iPod rumor or Google enhancement from early 2006. The information in this video covers of basic foundation of the Internet as we know it today, which makes it priceless.
- bnoble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not "rare" anymore. Good find!
- p.g.d., on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not exactly about Arpanet, but the Internet archive has some really interesting vids about BBS's and such from the era.
http://www.archive.org/details/movies - subgenius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4... and I was there.... have an old terminal processor in my home 'computer museum' (room full of old crap).
(yes, I'm that old). - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6The guy at 3:27 looks like Kevin Rose...
- kaleberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nope, the cash machine was real. The cards were Cool Cash Cards from Coolidge Savings. They had envelopes with precounted cash (was it $20 or $50) in them, because they couldn't count bills. It was a year or two before Harvard Trust had them.
- CatcherInTheWhy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@ianam
Learn to read the article, dog.
"Working in a bi-partisan manner with officials in Ronald Reagan and George Bush’s administrations" - CatcherInTheWhy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually Sun Microsystems has a distributed OS thing going on; the thin client system is the equivalent, but I don't think distributed computing makes sense, considering that 1) Computers aren't specialized the same way they used to be and 2) everyone has a computer.
We'll probably end up with a hybrid system, more on the thin-client end than we are now, but I'm pretty sure that we're going to keep processors on the desktop. -
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