Thursday, October 15, 2009

Internet Documentary

Yay the history of the thing I'm using. Corny 90s visual effects aside, the documentary was awesome. I absolutely love hearing about the advent of technology and the people that inspired its inception. Since the internet is ridiculously useful, and ubiquitous, I think it's supremely important to see how this technology was created. I wonder how it would've been different if ARPA didn't sponsor anything. Would someone else have sponsored the initiaitive or would we just be behind technologically and I'd be using AOL 2.0 right now?
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  1. sargOctober 18, 2009 at 9:08 AM

    Thought it was interesting how everything stemmed off of ARPA's initial research and sponsorship too. Luckily it worked out otherwise who knows what would have happened!

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  2. AnonymousOctober 18, 2009 at 12:01 PM

    Something really interesting thats happening right now in Finland and other european countries is the passing of legislation stating that internet access is a basic right. Its sort of incredible to consider the addition of a basic right, but when i think about it the internet does represent access to information, which logically makes a lot of sense as something that should be universally accessible.

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  3. angelalaOctober 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM

    Hey, what was wrong with AOL 2.0?

    ...just kidding.

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