[Air-L] pre-history of the Internet

[Barry Wellman]

which is more interesting than Clone Wars (in either live or animated
versions). See below

 Barry Wellman
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  S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC              NetLab Director
  Department of Sociology                        University of Toronto
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Date:    Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:11:59 +0100
From:    martin dodge <m.dodge at manchester.ac.uk>
Subject: history of NSFNET with maps of network growth

Ancient history in Internet time......

5.  NSF and the Birth of the Internet [Macromedia Flash Player]
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/

The birth of the Internet is the subject of this utterly engaging and well-
thought out special report created by the National Science Foundation. After
a brief introduction, visitors can browse through a multimedia site that
includes video clips of early pioneers talking about their work on this
endeavor, along with maps of Internet growth from the 1960s to the 1990s and
documents such as the Lax Report. Interestingly enough the Lax Report,
issued in 1982, was influential in the creation of the National Science
Foundation's supercomputing centers. The materials are divided up by decade
(1960s through the 2000s) and visitors can click on each section to learn
about the advances and challenges faced by persons working in this field.
Along the way, a small section in the bottom right-hand corner of the site
keeps a running total of the baud rate and the Internet users in each
decade. Of course, visitors will not want to miss the section dedicated to
Mosaic, which was the browser developed at the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications in the early 1990s. [KMG]

Courtesy of Internet Scout report
http://scout.wisc.edu/

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