National Science Foundation has put together a really great web site that tells the story of the birth of the Internet, using videos, presentations and documents from its archives. The history is divided into decades, and there is a special section devoted to Mosaic developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in the early 1990s. It should be on your things to do today. Awesome!
NSF Tells The Story of The Birth of The Internet
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[...] Om Malik has pointed out the NSF Birth of the Internet site that is absolutely frikkin’ awesome. I have only just started going through the history which is extremely well done in video and multimedia and I am mesmerized. The scary thing is remembering first-hand most of the things covered. I still haven’t hit the part where Al Gore invented the Internet, though. You must check this out. BTW, Om, I will not likely get much done this afternoon, thanks buddy. The coolest part for me so far is that in the 60’s you could get a computer with a whopping 8,192 BYTES of memory for just $1,000 per month. [...]
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[...] GigaOM Werbung Artikelzusatzinfos 1. Tags: history, internet, linktipps, web, Web History 2. weitere [...]
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[...] Internet’s Birth - This seemed like an odd and logical segue from Internet death to birth. GigaOM is right when he says, “National Science Foundation has put together a really great web site that [...]
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Yeah, your tax dollars at work.
2:40 PM PT
Thanks for sharing this story! Keep up the good work.
6:05 PM PT
Dear Om,
Would love to hear your view on the latest iPhone 2.02 update. Does it ease the 3G connectivity issues? Would you recommend the purchase of the device now?
Cheers,
John