Mar 12
Every new communications technology has that honeymoon period where a select group of people embraces it as the key to utopia. And then come the trolls. Even early radio had miscreants who would send out false distress signals
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Mar 05
For something as ubiquitous as the internet today, it certainly isn’t easy to find where it all started. I don’t mean historically, I mean logistically: 3420 Boelter Hall is a tiny room in a basement hallway of a large nondescript building on the sprawling UCLA campus.
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Dec 10
Thanks to recent confirmation that your every online move is being monitored, trust in the internet seems like it’s at an all-time low. In fact, as we can see from an article published in 1973, we were acutely aware that the future of our interconnected world depended on confidence in the privacy and security of the network before it even existed.
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Dec 06
Yes, this "Internet" radio from the late 1960s or early 1970s is real. But no, it’s not the doings of some sneaky time traveler. It’s yet another lesson in how history plays tricks on the future. With words.
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Dec 04
"Once upon a time computers were for thinking… That’s no longer true. Computers are for communicating now, and networks allowed that to happen."
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Oct 18
Did Al Gore Invent the Internet?
Posted in: Today's Chili
Anytime someone online writes about internet history, the comments inevitably fill up with jokes about Al Gore. There’s a popular myth that Gore once claimed to have invented the internet, which means many people think that "Al Gore" works as both a set-up and a punchline. What these jokesters might be surprised to learn is that Gore actually deserves some credit.
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Oct 02
If you predicted the decline of deadtree books or the rise of services like Netflix streaming, say, 25 years ago
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Sep 05
The ARPANET made its first host-to-host connection
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Aug 06
In its early days, radio technology was often called wireless telephone. The Xbox was almost called the MEGA
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Jul 30
There are surprisingly few documents from 1969 that mark the birth of the internet. We have some notes scribbled on a pad of paper, and a few newspaper articles after the fact. But there weren’t any reporters parked outside of 3420 Boelter Hall at UCLA on October 29, 1969 to witness that historic moment when the ARPANET gasped its first breaths. In fact, it wasn’t even above-the-fold news.
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