Old video about the internet. Worth seeing if you haven't.

[Cry Havoc]

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Just thought I'd post this. If you haven't seen it, it's pretty amazing.

[baseline bum]

Cool video. If you really want to see some old footage about the internet, check this video. It shows Douglas Engelbart (a Turing Award winner who also invented the mouse) using a web-like application (i.e., hypertext) over a network 41 years ago!

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/media/common/media/be69a712-c6ec-4d80-baac-a7db5dac7516_opencast_video_itunes-wcb.mp4

It's a little less than 11 minutes in, but I encourage you to just watch the whole thing through. It's part of a talk from another Turing Award winner (Alan Kay) about how he designed the user interface (for Xerox) that Apple and Microsoft later stole for their operating systems (Kay is also the father of OOP).

It's a two part video: Here is part 2.

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/media/common/media/65ba1394-0fc2-4335-83b0-5829ec29849d_opencast_video_itunes-wcb.mp4

If you're at all interested in computers it's about as fascinating a talk as you'll ever see from one of the most creative and unconventional people in the field.

[mookie2001]

theres no cursing or personal put downs.
the internet is a series of tubes

[Buddy Holly]

Who would have guessed that such an innocent creation would turn into what is essentially a porn finding and dispensing machine. Wait, everyone.

[theInternet]

It is only going to get better or worse depending on how you see it.

[mouse]

I wonder if any of those men knew the best thing about their discovery and hard work would eventually amount to ....


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[Frenzy]

so this would be nothing without the Phone huh.... interesting.

[Extra Stout]

So the internet has finally arrived in Canada.