The History of the Internet

[Jeremy R]

YouTube - History of the Internet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&fmt=22)
Very cool video I found.:)

[johnfoss]

And let's not forget one of the grandfathers of information theory, Dr. Claude Shannon. He worked at Bell Labs in the 1940s and was one of the people who came up with the concept that anything could be converted to digital information, that could then be transmitted electronically. Like pictures, audio, video. He laid some of the groundwork for the data that passed between those computers (and ours today).

Oh, and he was also a unicyclist, juggler, and one of the founding members of the Unicycling Society of America.

He passed away in 2001. A thread about him here (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11252). Note the guy who started that thread was also the son of another USA founding member.

[Wheel Rider]

Everybody knows Al Gore invented the internet. (He said so.)

[UniKid2]

No, Al Gore invented global warming, not the internet...

[Jerrick]

I invented internet2, usb 3, and the next step of HD tv, which will be x2160 res.

You can all thank me later.

[Jeremy R]

I invented internet2, usb 3, and the next step of HD tv, which will be x2160 res.

You can all thank me later.
USB 3 is already out.

[Jerrick]

I know. I invented it.

[johnfoss]

I invented internet2, usb 3, and the next step of HD tv, which will be x2160 res.

You can all thank me later.Not if I have to buy all my movies over again...:p

I invented UWB. That's Ultra-WideBand or wireless USB. Yes, this was a few years ago, when I was working at Intel. Of course they'll take most of the credit....

[Jerrick]

Youll just have to buy an upconversion dvd player. They are cheap and will play your standard 720 and 1080 at the 2160 res. But im sure sony or microsoft will have a sweet new gaming console with that and 4kdvd players built in.

We'll find out in 2014/2015.

[Gilby]

I invented internet2, usb 3, and the next step of HD tv, which will be x2160 res.

You can all thank me later.

Your HD is no match to my 3DHD.

Oh yeah, I am the inventor of the tiny web address.

Not if I have to buy all my movies over again...

Just as soon at you've gotten your whole collection in Blu-ray format, the 3DHD-Flash will be launched.

[Jeremy R]

Your HD is no match to my 3DHD.

Oh yeah, I am the inventor of the tiny web address.



Just as soon at you've gotten your whole collection in Blu-ray format, the 3DHD-Flash will be launched.
Gilby, I'm unimpressed. I guess I just held you to a higher standard, in expecting 4DHD

[john_childs]

Your HD is no match to my 3DHD.


Now with AutoBalance (http://www.gilby.com/unicycling/AutoBalance.html) technology.

[uni57]

Everybody knows Al Gore invented the internet. (He said so.)No he didn't say that. Not exactly. I've laughed at that joke more than once, but I finally looked it up in response to this thread. Al Gore backed government initiatives that apparently were important in helping the Internet develop into what it is today. I'm not pro- (or anti-) Al Gore, but he seems like a bright guy. So how could he accidentally say that he invented something he didn't? He didn't. Exactly. So, to set the record straight...


Here's what Al Gore said --
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."

Very clumsily worded, but he never claimed to "invent" the Internet. I think he was trying to say that he saw the potential of the Internet before his colleagues did and that he initiated or backed initiatives that were instrumental in making the Internet what it is today.


Here's what Vint Cerf, the Father of the Internet, says in defense of Al Gore --
"The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator."

"As Senator, VP Gore was highly supportive of the research community's efforts to explore new networking capabilities and to extend access to supercomputers by way of NSFNET and its successors, the High Performance Computing and Communication program (which included the National Research and Education Network initiative), and ..." (read the whole thing here (http://web.archive.org/web/20000125065813/http://www.mids.org/mn/904/vcerf.html))


Mark Andreesen, creator of Mosaic, the first modern, graphical browser, said --
"[without Gore the Internet] would not be where it is today."


A Columbia computer science professor said --
"[Gore] was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country."


I'll still laugh at that joke (and even repeat it once in a while). But let's give the guy a break. He has his hands full with global warming.


All of the above quotes were taken from here (http://www.perkel.com/politics/gore/internet.htm) and here (http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp) and here (http://web.archive.org/web/20000125065813/http://www.mids.org/mn/904/vcerf.html).

[jagur]

will someone just PM me who invented Sendhair.

[uni57]

I miss Sendhair.

[JJuggle]

I miss Sendhair.Me as well.

Why are we whispering?

[uni57]

Me as well.

Why are we whispering?He always posted in a small font with a different color.

[john_childs]

will someone just PM me who invented Sendhair.

I thought you could have been Sendhair. :confused:

[john_childs]

No he didn't say that. Not exactly. I've laughed at that joke more than once, but I finally looked it up in response to this thread. Al Gore backed government initiatives that apparently were important in helping the Internet develop into what it is today. I'm not pro- (or anti-) Al Gore, but he seems like a bright guy. So how could he accidentally say that he invented something he didn't? He didn't. Exactly. So, to set the record straight...


I knew the story behind the quote and that it is out of context. But that doesn't change the fact that it is still fun to misquote Al Gore to make him sound like a fool. There are plenty of similar misquotes of George Bush that are similar and make him look like a fool. It is part of the territory of being a prominent politician.

It will be interesting to see what misquotes of President Rock Star Obama stick. There are going to have to be some.

[uni57]

I knew the story behind the quote and that it is out of context. But that doesn't change the fact that it is still fun to misquote Al Gore to make him sound like a fool.Oh, I love attributing the invention of the Internet to Gore. That will never stop being funny to me. But I always laugh respectfully (knowing that he's not actually an idiot like... um, maybe it's time to change the subject now).

[john_childs]

(knowing that he's not actually an idiot like... um, maybe it's time to change the subject now).

Obama the Great mistook a window for a door (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4387606/Barack-Obama-mistakes-window-for-door-at-White-House.html) a couple days ago. We'll have to see how long it takes for photoshoped images of Obama's gaffe to show up on the internet.

[uni57]

LOL, it looks like a door! Maybe he invented it. Why is this stuff so funny?

[BillyTheMountain]

I knew the story behind the quote and that it is out of context. But that doesn't change the fact that it is still fun to misquote Al Gore to make him sound like a fool. There are plenty of similar misquotes of George Bush that are similar and make him look like a fool. It is part of the territory of being a prominent politician.

It will be interesting to see what misquotes of President Rock Star Obama stick. There are going to have to be some.

The difference is you don't have to misquote Bush to make him sound like a fool.

Billy

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[jagur]

I thought you could have been Sendhair. :confused:

Really? All those old threads might take new meaning for you now. He left after being blackmailed about some sex issue. It worked I guess cause he/she left shortly after that forum spat.

l I'm still waiting for my promised seat to get here from Japan.