34 years ago
Watch this fascinating video. It’s a 1972 documentary entitled “Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing”. Putting it simply, it was those guys who invented most of the foundations that permit you to read this online, and shop, and e-mail, and VoIP… One interesting detail, the wideband connections interlinking the nodes back then were 50 Kilobit ones. The current fastest interconnections today are in the 1 Terabit range, a 2×10^7 increase, 20 million times faster.
Thanks to Boing Boing for the link.
Update: Google is apparently not hosting the video anymore (copyright issues?) If you managed to fish the .flv file from your cache please send it to me, I’ll transcode it and host it here Thanks to reader pSy for alerting that the video is again available. I’m going to download it and keep a copy around in case this piece of history disappears again.
You can still watch the movie on GoogleVideo, try this link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4989933629762859961&q=Computer+Networks+Heralds&pl=true
or simply search for the Keywords.
pSy
Matsu – the video link unfortunately does not work. I tried going through Boing Boing and got the same error on Google (where the video must be stored). If you find a link that works, please post it. Thanks!