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Washington DC, November 6, 2014. Social justice activists affiliated with Creative Resistance, freepress, DemandProgress, Fight For The Future and other groups rallied in front of the White House this evening in support of net neutrality and against the latest plans by the FCC to sneak in* 'pay for play' fast lanes for content providers and consumers, stranding those who can't pay in slow lanes. Over four million people have spoken out against this odious proposal. Even our Disappointer In Chief Barack Obama has gone on the record in favor of continued net neutrality. The style of the action this evening was inspired by a recent rally in Budapest Hungary, where thousands gathered with shimmering digital devices held aloft in protest of proposed additional charges for data access.The powers that be in Hungary backed down.
*FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former telecom lobbyist, has refused to allow open public hearings on the proposed changes. The details of the latest FCC so-called Net Neutrality plan were leaked, not released.
Washington DC, November 6, 2014. Social justice activists affiliated with Creative Resistance, freepress, DemandProgress, Fight For The Future and other groups rallied in front of the White House this evening in support of net neutrality and against the latest plans by the FCC to sneak in* 'pay for play' fast lanes for content providers and consumers, stranding those who can't pay in slow lanes. Over four million people have spoken out against this odious proposal. Even our Disappointer In Chief Barack Obama has gone on the record in favor of continued net neutrality. The style of the action this evening was inspired by a recent rally in Budapest Hungary, where thousands gathered with shimmering digital devices held aloft in protest of proposed additional charges for data access.The powers that be in Hungary backed down.
*FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former telecom lobbyist, has refused to allow open public hearings on the proposed changes. The details of the latest FCC so-called Net Neutrality plan were leaked, not released.
Washington DC, November 6, 2014. Social justice activists affiliated with Creative Resistance, freepress, DemandProgress, Fight For The Future and other groups rallied in front of the White House this evening in support of net neutrality and against the latest plans by the FCC to sneak in* 'pay for play' fast lanes for content providers and consumers, stranding those who can't pay in slow lanes. Over four million people have spoken out against this odious proposal. Even our Disappointer In Chief Barack Obama has gone on the record in favor of continued net neutrality. The style of the action this evening was inspired by a recent rally in Budapest Hungary, where thousands gathered with shimmering digital devices held aloft in protest of proposed additional charges for data access.The powers that be in Hungary backed down.
*FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former telecom lobbyist, has refused to allow open public hearings on the proposed changes. The details of the latest FCC so-called Net Neutrality plan were leaked, not released.
This is the front panel of the very first Internet Message Processor (IMP), which went to UCLA's Boelter 3420 lab and became the very first node on the ARPANET, which would become the Internet that we all know and love today.
The IMP was essentially a primitive router, much like the Wi-Fi router or cable modem you may have sitting on your desk, yet it was about the size of a refrigerator. This IMP, however, with the help of a SDS Sigma-7 computer, did transmit the the first message ever sent on the Internet to the Stanford Research Institute, promptly crashing the computer on Stanford's end.
Today, the original Boelter 3420 lab at UCLA, the birthplace of the Internet, is being turned into a museum with the original equipment used to transmit the very first messages on the Internet (today was their grand opening, which I was present for). The Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive will soon open to the public. If you'd like to learn more about the museum, click here.
Note: I've also uploaded this photo to the Wikimedia Commons, which can be found here. Likewise, I've licensed this photo under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, unlike most of my photos which are CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. Note that the Flickr copy of this photo is under version 2.0 of the license, while the Wikimedia Commons version is under version 3.0. Although they are essentially identical to the end user, you may use either version of the CC-BY-SA license, whichever you prefer.
This is the very first computer to ever be connected to the Internet. Of course, back in 1969 it wasn't called the Internet, but the ARPANET, and really there was no ARPANET to connect to - this computer and its accompanying Interface Message Processor formed the first node on the ARPANET, and the connection from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) was the first backbone link on the ARPANET.
This computer sent, with the aid of the IMP (which is essentially a router), the very first message ever sent on the Internet, which promptly crashed the computer on SRI's end.
I took this photo at the grand re-opening of the original Boelter 3420 lab at UCLA, the birthplace of the Internet, as the Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive, which will soon open to the public. If you'd like to learn more about the museum, click here.
Today, 29 October 2011, is the 42nd birthday of the Internet. This page from the IMP (Interface Message Processor) log from 29 October 1969 records the date and time of the very first message ever sent on the Internet, sent on 29 October 1969 at 22:30 Pacific Time from Boelter Hall 3420 at UCLA (this room is now the Kleinrock Internet Heritage site, which now contains the original equipment used to transmit the first messages on the Internet - after all, it literally is the birthplace of the Internet).
Today was also the grand opening of the museum, which I was present for. Charley Kline, who actually sent the very first message on the Internet (then the ARPANET), was there to tell the story of the first message ever sent on the Internet.
The The Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive will soon open to the public. If you'd like to learn more about the museum, click here.
As a contrast to the 'Big Day Out' photo alongside this one.
'Splore' looks more like the modern equivalent by the sea .
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From the archives , about summer 1978/9. A rural-based local farm event at Golden Valley that included tenting , alternative culture and music with many naked swimming on the east coast surf beach near Waihi ,Bay of Plenty.There were about three Nambassa's replaced by 'Sweewaters' festivals by the Waikato River the next three or so years. (Pentax SLR) .Where I first noticed the now established photographer Gill Hanly early in her career taking pictures of Maori bikers sprawled near the front stage.Skyhooks played at this one.
Washington DC, November 6, 2014. Social justice activists affiliated with Creative Resistance, freepress, DemandProgress, Fight For The Future and other groups rallied in front of the White House this evening in support of net neutrality and against the latest plans by the FCC to sneak in* 'pay for play' fast lanes for content providers and consumers, stranding those who can't pay in slow lanes. Over four million people have spoken out against this odious proposal. Even our Disappointer In Chief Barack Obama has gone on the record in favor of continued net neutrality. The style of the action this evening was inspired by a recent rally in Budapest Hungary, where thousands gathered with shimmering digital devices held aloft in protest of proposed additional charges for data access.The powers that be in Hungary backed down.
*FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former telecom lobbyist, has refused to allow open public hearings on the proposed changes. The details of the latest FCC so-called Net Neutrality plan were leaked, not released.
1994 t-shirt commemorating Eternal September compare to www.flickr.com/photos/35237099379@N01/6086284099
1994 t-shirt commemorating Eternal September compare to www.flickr.com/photos/35237099379@N01/6086284099
Yes, at one point in time, computers actually stored data on magnetic tape instead of hard drives. And you thought 3.5 inch floppy disks were old tech!
These are tapes for the SDS Sigma 7 computer used by the UCLA Boelter 3420 lab, the birthplace of the Internet. The Sigma-7 used the Interface Message Processor to transmit messages (we call them "packets" today) to other IMPs and systems connected to the ARPANET. UCLA's Sigma-7 and IMP form the first node to ever be connected to the ARPANET, which would become the Internet that we all know and love today.
The very first message ever sent on the Internet was sent from this very room on 29 October 1969 at 22:30 Pacific Time to the Stanford Research Institute, promptly crashing the computer on Stanford's end.
I took this photo at the grand re-opening of the original Boelter 3420 lab at UCLA, the birthplace of the Internet, as the Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive, which will soon open to the public. If you'd like to learn more about the museum, click here.
Washington DC, November 6, 2014. Social justice activists affiliated with Creative Resistance, freepress, DemandProgress, Fight For The Future and other groups rallied in front of the White House this evening in support of net neutrality and against the latest plans by the FCC to sneak in* 'pay for play' fast lanes for content providers and consumers, stranding those who can't pay in slow lanes. Over four million people have spoken out against this odious proposal. Even our Disappointer In Chief Barack Obama has gone on the record in favor of continued net neutrality. The style of the action this evening was inspired by a recent rally in Budapest Hungary, where thousands gathered with shimmering digital devices held aloft in protest of proposed additional charges for data access.The powers that be in Hungary backed down.
*FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former telecom lobbyist, has refused to allow open public hearings on the proposed changes. The details of the latest FCC so-called Net Neutrality plan were leaked, not released.
It's been quite some time now since the actual event at which I took these photos, but I just rediscovered on my hard drive. So what do I do? Process and upload them, of course! Better late than never, right?
This was the blackboard in the lab on the day of the grand-reopening of the lab (see below). I don't think the writing is authentic, but it was pretty cool nonetheless. The upper-left is a map of the ARPANET cira 1969, the lower-left is a bunch of equations relating to computer networking that I've since forgotten (which is kinda sad considering that I'm a computer science student), and the lab's social media addresses on the right (proof that the board is not authentic).
I took this photo at the grand re-opening of the original Boelter 3420 lab at UCLA, the birthplace of the Internet, as the Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive, which will soon open to the public. If you'd like to learn more about the museum, click here.
1994 t-shirt commemorating Eternal September compare to www.flickr.com/photos/35237099379@N01/6086284099
1994 t-shirt commemorating Eternal September compare to www.flickr.com/photos/35237099379@N01/6086284099
Washington DC, November 6, 2014. Social justice activists affiliated with Creative Resistance, freepress, DemandProgress, Fight For The Future and other groups rallied in front of the White House this evening in support of net neutrality and against the latest plans by the FCC to sneak in* 'pay for play' fast lanes for content providers and consumers, stranding those who can't pay in slow lanes. Over four million people have spoken out against this odious proposal. Even our Disappointer In Chief Barack Obama has gone on the record in favor of continued net neutrality. The style of the action this evening was inspired by a recent rally in Budapest Hungary, where thousands gathered with shimmering digital devices held aloft in protest of proposed additional charges for data access.The powers that be in Hungary backed down.
*FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former telecom lobbyist, has refused to allow open public hearings on the proposed changes. The details of the latest FCC so-called Net Neutrality plan were leaked, not released.
It's been quite some time now since the actual event at which I took these photos, but I just rediscovered on my hard drive. So what do I do? Process and upload them, of course! Better late than never, right?
These diagrams (although the papers themselves not authentic, the contents probably are) were taped to the wall of the lab at the time of the re-opening of the lab (see below). The upper-most one contains a map of the ARPANET, as does the lower-left one, and the other two are technical diagrams.
I took this photo at the grand re-opening of the original Boelter 3420 lab at UCLA, the birthplace of the Internet, as the Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive, which will soon open to the public. If you'd like to learn more about the museum, click here.
It's been quite some time now since the actual event at which I took these photos, but I just rediscovered on my hard drive. So what do I do? Process and upload them, of course! Better late than never, right?
This was the teletype machine that was connected to the SDS Sigma 7 which was in turn connected to the Interface Message Processor. Yup, this is how you sent messages over the Internet back in the day. Everything sent and received got printed out on the paper coming out of the machine. Can you imagine the Internet working like this now? I can't.
I took this photo at the grand re-opening of the original Boelter 3420 lab at UCLA, the birthplace of the Internet, as the Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive, which will soon open to the public. If you'd like to learn more about the museum, click here.
Behold the very first router ever to connect to the Internet. Okay, back in 1969 it wasn't called the Internet, but the ARPANET. And this machine right here was the first system ever to be connected, and it formed the first backbone link on the Internet to the Stanford Research Institute.
This is the Interface Message Processor, or the IMP. About the size of a refrigerator, it has less power than a modern Wi-Fi router, yet it transmitted (with the help of an attached SDS Sigma-7 computer) the very first message ever sent on the Internet.
Here's a detail of the IMP's front panel.
I took this photo at the grand re-opening of the original Boelter 3420 lab at UCLA, the birthplace of the Internet, as the Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive, which will soon open to the public. If you'd like to learn more about the museum, click here.
Washington DC, November 6, 2014. Social justice activists affiliated with Creative Resistance, freepress, DemandProgress, Fight For The Future and other groups rallied in front of the White House this evening in support of net neutrality and against the latest plans by the FCC to sneak in* 'pay for play' fast lanes for content providers and consumers, stranding those who can't pay in slow lanes. Over four million people have spoken out against this odious proposal. Even our Disappointer In Chief Barack Obama has gone on the record in favor of continued net neutrality. The style of the action this evening was inspired by a recent rally in Budapest Hungary, where thousands gathered with shimmering digital devices held aloft in protest of proposed additional charges for data access.The powers that be in Hungary backed down.
*FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former telecom lobbyist, has refused to allow open public hearings on the proposed changes. The details of the latest FCC so-called Net Neutrality plan were leaked, not released.
Washington DC, November 6, 2014. Social justice activists affiliated with Creative Resistance, freepress, DemandProgress, Fight For The Future and other groups rallied in front of the White House this evening in support of net neutrality and against the latest plans by the FCC to sneak in* 'pay for play' fast lanes for content providers and consumers, stranding those who can't pay in slow lanes. Over four million people have spoken out against this odious proposal. Even our Disappointer In Chief Barack Obama has gone on the record in favor of continued net neutrality. The style of the action this evening was inspired by a recent rally in Budapest Hungary, where thousands gathered with shimmering digital devices held aloft in protest of proposed additional charges for data access.The powers that be in Hungary backed down.
*FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former telecom lobbyist, has refused to allow open public hearings on the proposed changes. The details of the latest FCC so-called Net Neutrality plan were leaked, not released.
Washington DC, November 6, 2014. Social justice activists affiliated with Creative Resistance, freepress, DemandProgress, Fight For The Future and other groups rallied in front of the White House this evening in support of net neutrality and against the latest plans by the FCC to sneak in* 'pay for play' fast lanes for content providers and consumers, stranding those who can't pay in slow lanes. Over four million people have spoken out against this odious proposal. Even our Disappointer In Chief Barack Obama has gone on the record in favor of continued net neutrality. The style of the action this evening was inspired by a recent rally in Budapest Hungary, where thousands gathered with shimmering digital devices held aloft in protest of proposed additional charges for data access.The powers that be in Hungary backed down.
*FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former telecom lobbyist, has refused to allow open public hearings on the proposed changes. The details of the latest FCC so-called Net Neutrality plan were leaked, not released.
Washington DC, November 6, 2014. Social justice activists affiliated with Creative Resistance, freepress, DemandProgress, Fight For The Future and other groups rallied in front of the White House this evening in support of net neutrality and against the latest plans by the FCC to sneak in* 'pay for play' fast lanes for content providers and consumers, stranding those who can't pay in slow lanes. Over four million people have spoken out against this odious proposal. Even our Disappointer In Chief Barack Obama has gone on the record in favor of continued net neutrality. The style of the action this evening was inspired by a recent rally in Budapest Hungary, where thousands gathered with shimmering digital devices held aloft in protest of proposed additional charges for data access.The powers that be in Hungary backed down.
*FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former telecom lobbyist, has refused to allow open public hearings on the proposed changes. The details of the latest FCC so-called Net Neutrality plan were leaked, not released.
Washington DC, November 6, 2014. Social justice activists affiliated with Creative Resistance, freepress, DemandProgress, Fight For The Future and other groups rallied in front of the White House this evening in support of net neutrality and against the latest plans by the FCC to sneak in* 'pay for play' fast lanes for content providers and consumers, stranding those who can't pay in slow lanes. Over four million people have spoken out against this odious proposal. Even our Disappointer In Chief Barack Obama has gone on the record in favor of continued net neutrality. The style of the action this evening was inspired by a recent rally in Budapest Hungary, where thousands gathered with shimmering digital devices held aloft in protest of proposed additional charges for data access.The powers that be in Hungary backed down.
*FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former telecom lobbyist, has refused to allow open public hearings on the proposed changes. The details of the latest FCC so-called Net Neutrality plan were leaked, not released.
Washington DC, November 6, 2014. Social justice activists affiliated with Creative Resistance, freepress, DemandProgress, Fight For The Future and other groups rallied in front of the White House this evening in support of net neutrality and against the latest plans by the FCC to sneak in* 'pay for play' fast lanes for content providers and consumers, stranding those who can't pay in slow lanes. Over four million people have spoken out against this odious proposal. Even our Disappointer In Chief Barack Obama has gone on the record in favor of continued net neutrality. The style of the action this evening was inspired by a recent rally in Budapest Hungary, where thousands gathered with shimmering digital devices held aloft in protest of proposed additional charges for data access.The powers that be in Hungary backed down.
*FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former telecom lobbyist, has refused to allow open public hearings on the proposed changes. The details of the latest FCC so-called Net Neutrality plan were leaked, not released.
Washington DC, November 6, 2014. Social justice activists affiliated with Creative Resistance, freepress, DemandProgress, Fight For The Future and other groups rallied in front of the White House this evening in support of net neutrality and against the latest plans by the FCC to sneak in* 'pay for play' fast lanes for content providers and consumers, stranding those who can't pay in slow lanes. Over four million people have spoken out against this odious proposal. Even our Disappointer In Chief Barack Obama has gone on the record in favor of continued net neutrality. The style of the action this evening was inspired by a recent rally in Budapest Hungary, where thousands gathered with shimmering digital devices held aloft in protest of proposed additional charges for data access.The powers that be in Hungary backed down.
*FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former telecom lobbyist, has refused to allow open public hearings on the proposed changes. The details of the latest FCC so-called Net Neutrality plan were leaked, not released.
Washington DC, November 6, 2014. Social justice activists affiliated with Creative Resistance, freepress, DemandProgress, Fight For The Future and other groups rallied in front of the White House this evening in support of net neutrality and against the latest plans by the FCC to sneak in* 'pay for play' fast lanes for content providers and consumers, stranding those who can't pay in slow lanes. Over four million people have spoken out against this odious proposal. Even our Disappointer In Chief Barack Obama has gone on the record in favor of continued net neutrality. The style of the action this evening was inspired by a recent rally in Budapest Hungary, where thousands gathered with shimmering digital devices held aloft in protest of proposed additional charges for data access.The powers that be in Hungary backed down.
*FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former telecom lobbyist, has refused to allow open public hearings on the proposed changes. The details of the latest FCC so-called Net Neutrality plan were leaked, not released.
The Computer History Museum (John Toole, Exec. Director at podium) hosted an event recognizing the 30th anniversary of the first demonstration of TCP Internetworking, a key first step in today's Internet. The demonstration sent a message to three separate networks, and including signals sent to two different satellites.
Each member of the panel was a key contributor to this demo. Left to right, they (and their 1977 affiliation) are Virginia Strazisar Travers (Bolt Beranek and Newman), Paal Spilling (Norwegian Defense Research Establishment), Don Nielson (SRI International), Bob Kahn (DARPA), Irwin Jacobs (Linkabit Corp.), Jim Garrett (Collins Radio Group, Rockwell), and Vint Cerf (DARPA). At far right is Gina Smith, who moderated the panel discussion.
Preston Padden @ TPRC 41
An atypical TPRC dinner speaker. I was the first but not the last to stand up to question what he said.
The Origins of the Internet
“When the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957, the US government responded with dramatically increased support of technology research and development, much of it funded through the new Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). In 1966 Bob Taylor of ARPA’s computer research division obtained funding for a network called ARPANET to link computers so that resources and results could be shared more easily. He hired Larry Roberts of MIT to manage the project, which was based on newly-invented packet-switching technology. At the end of the 1969 the ARPANET began operating with four nodes: University of California at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, Stanford Research Institute, and University of Utah. That original ARPANET gradually grew into the Internet, which 30 years later had about 43 million nodes.
The early Internet, used primarily by engineers and scientists, was not at all user-friendly. As e-mail and file transfer protocols and programs matured, non-specialists started to use it. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee of the CERN high-energy physics lab in Europe proposed a protocol for the exchange of online documents which became the basis for the World Wide Web. The development in 1993 of the graphical browser Mosaic by Marc Andreessen and his team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) made the web accessible to everyone and led to its explosive growth. Marc Andreessen and entrepreneur Jim Clark founded Netscape in 1994 to create a web browser based on the Mosaic project. Netscape Navigator quickly dominated the early browser market.”
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7116)
It's been quite some time now since the actual event at which I took these photos, but I just rediscovered on my hard drive. So what do I do? Process and upload them, of course! Better late than never, right?
This is the little paper panel on the Interface Message Processor, showing that this is the first released IMP and that it was assigned to UCLA. It also shows the IMP as being a model 516 IMP, running IMPLOD (the OS, I presume) version 5232 (written above the crossed-out old version number) released on 5 February 1976 (I think).
I took this photo at the grand re-opening of the original Boelter 3420 lab at UCLA, the birthplace of the Internet, as the Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive, which will soon open to the public. If you'd like to learn more about the museum, click here.
It's been quite some time now since the actual event at which I took these photos, but I just rediscovered on my hard drive. So what do I do? Process and upload them, of course! Better late than never, right?
This is the power distribution unit on the Interface Message Processor. It looks like it has had a lifetime uptime of 7792.4 hours. I wonder how much power it drew while running....
I took this photo at the grand re-opening of the original Boelter 3420 lab at UCLA, the birthplace of the Internet, as the Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive, which will soon open to the public. If you'd like to learn more about the museum, click here.
The Origins of the Internet
“When the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957, the US government responded with dramatically increased support of technology research and development, much of it funded through the new Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). In 1966 Bob Taylor of ARPA’s computer research division obtained funding for a network called ARPANET to link computers so that resources and results could be shared more easily. He hired Larry Roberts of MIT to manage the project, which was based on newly-invented packet-switching technology. At the end of the 1969 the ARPANET began operating with four nodes: University of California at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, Stanford Research Institute, and University of Utah. That original ARPANET gradually grew into the Internet, which 30 years later had about 43 million nodes.
The early Internet, used primarily by engineers and scientists, was not at all user-friendly. As e-mail and file transfer protocols and programs matured, non-specialists started to use it. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee of the CERN high-energy physics lab in Europe proposed a protocol for the exchange of online documents which became the basis for the World Wide Web. The development in 1993 of the graphical browser Mosaic by Marc Andreessen and his team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) made the web accessible to everyone and led to its explosive growth. Marc Andreessen and entrepreneur Jim Clark founded Netscape in 1994 to create a web browser based on the Mosaic project. Netscape Navigator quickly dominated the early browser market.”
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7111)
Enjoyed hanging out with Paul Mockapetris & Mike Roberts. Later I found out Paul invented DNS & Mike created & runs ICANN. They were lots of fun.
The Origins of the Internet
“When the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957, the US government responded with dramatically increased support of technology research and development, much of it funded through the new Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). In 1966 Bob Taylor of ARPA’s computer research division obtained funding for a network called ARPANET to link computers so that resources and results could be shared more easily. He hired Larry Roberts of MIT to manage the project, which was based on newly-invented packet-switching technology. At the end of the 1969 the ARPANET began operating with four nodes: University of California at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, Stanford Research Institute, and University of Utah. That original ARPANET gradually grew into the Internet, which 30 years later had about 43 million nodes.
The early Internet, used primarily by engineers and scientists, was not at all user-friendly. As e-mail and file transfer protocols and programs matured, non-specialists started to use it. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee of the CERN high-energy physics lab in Europe proposed a protocol for the exchange of online documents which became the basis for the World Wide Web. The development in 1993 of the graphical browser Mosaic by Marc Andreessen and his team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) made the web accessible to everyone and led to its explosive growth. Marc Andreessen and entrepreneur Jim Clark founded Netscape in 1994 to create a web browser based on the Mosaic project. Netscape Navigator quickly dominated the early browser market.”
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7108)
larger photo: www.flickr.com/photos/cshym74/3572404682/
Interface Message Processor
Developed for the Advanced Research Projects Agency by Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
The Origins of the Internet
“When the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957, the US government responded with dramatically increased support of technology research and development, much of it funded through the new Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). In 1966 Bob Taylor of ARPA’s computer research division obtained funding for a network called ARPANET to link computers so that resources and results could be shared more easily. He hired Larry Roberts of MIT to manage the project, which was based on newly-invented packet-switching technology. At the end of the 1969 the ARPANET began operating with four nodes: University of California at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, Stanford Research Institute, and University of Utah. That original ARPANET gradually grew into the Internet, which 30 years later had about 43 million nodes.
The early Internet, used primarily by engineers and scientists, was not at all user-friendly. As e-mail and file transfer protocols and programs matured, non-specialists started to use it. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee of the CERN high-energy physics lab in Europe proposed a protocol for the exchange of online documents which became the basis for the World Wide Web. The development in 1993 of the graphical browser Mosaic by Marc Andreessen and his team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) made the web accessible to everyone and led to its explosive growth. Marc Andreessen and entrepreneur Jim Clark founded Netscape in 1994 to create a web browser based on the Mosaic project. Netscape Navigator quickly dominated the early browser market.”
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7113)
Producer Clinton H.Wallace, Producer Tomi Ilic, Actor Stanley B. Herman,Actress Dominique Swain, Director Gregory Hatanaka, Producer Madla Hruza attend the private cast & crew screening of "Blue Dream" held at Warner Bros.Studios in Burbank, CA ©Photomundo International Entertainment, all rights reserved
Interface Message Processor
Developed for the Advanced Research Projects Agency by Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
The Origins of the Internet
“When the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957, the US government responded with dramatically increased support of technology research and development, much of it funded through the new Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). In 1966 Bob Taylor of ARPA’s computer research division obtained funding for a network called ARPANET to link computers so that resources and results could be shared more easily. He hired Larry Roberts of MIT to manage the project, which was based on newly-invented packet-switching technology. At the end of the 1969 the ARPANET began operating with four nodes: University of California at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, Stanford Research Institute, and University of Utah. That original ARPANET gradually grew into the Internet, which 30 years later had about 43 million nodes.
The early Internet, used primarily by engineers and scientists, was not at all user-friendly. As e-mail and file transfer protocols and programs matured, non-specialists started to use it. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee of the CERN high-energy physics lab in Europe proposed a protocol for the exchange of online documents which became the basis for the World Wide Web. The development in 1993 of the graphical browser Mosaic by Marc Andreessen and his team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) made the web accessible to everyone and led to its explosive growth. Marc Andreessen and entrepreneur Jim Clark founded Netscape in 1994 to create a web browser based on the Mosaic project. Netscape Navigator quickly dominated the early browser market.”
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7112)
Only you, me, and the Internet Archive know that Yahoo! thought I was cool in 1997-2001. (How far have I fallen?!)
And that was for a website that looked like this(!)
The premiere issue of the Arpanet newsletter, distributed both on paper and, daringly, on the Arpanet
Before there was Flash (ok, it was FutureSplash Animator then) there was mBed. I almost went to work for them. Here's what they did:
"Bring the future of multimedia to your web site with mBED Interactor. Break the multimedia barrier with web-standard graphics and audio. Point and click your way to multimedia interactivity without complex programming. mBED Interactors revolutionary object-oriented framework dramatically shortens the development time to integrate animations, triggered sounds, interactive buttons, RealAudio, styled text, and server-application communication."
You can check out an archive of an early site at
Cliff Figallo and John "Tex" Coate, the figtex: Well management in the 80's (and up into the time i started there in december 1991)
bonafide online community royalty, and as down to earth as anybody you know.
An empty Internet browser's history is an automatic admission of guilt.
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