Download: the True Story About the Internet
Today’s story is on a new program I wanted to recommend on the Science Channel: Download: the True Story About the Internet, featured by journalist John Heinman. So far, they have talked about the evolution of many of the following companies: Google, Craigslist, Amazon, EBay, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace, among many others. Also, the Internet bubble and the recovery, Napster, search engines, venture capitalists, and music and Mp3s have been a highlight of the last three episodes. All of this has been a fascinating development to watch. Only in the past ten years has all this happened, and I have been there from the start. And it has been fun to watch for us Internet addicts. I have been to the end of the Internet so I know!
I was just chatting with the running pals about going to college pre-Internet, without cell phones, and do you remember the card catalogue? Do young kids still go to the place called the library? How nice it would be to stay in your dorm room, click click click in your jammies, instead of going to the big 13-story building where dark corridors loom with dusty unread books? Oregon State’s Library was a daunting place if I remember. I miss those days actually, finding treasures in the huge shelved rooms. A hunt that now seems to be solved by computer searches and the Internet. I was excited when the card catalogue became computerized. We live in interesting times and the Internet has been a tool that has grown beyond many people’s wildest expectations. I don’t go a day without doing something on the Internet. It seems that economics has played great deal in the Internet company revolution as well. At least until the companies compete against one another or the government gets involved and screws everything up.
Anyhow, it is interesting to watch the development of how the Internet came about, the software programs I liked and don’t exist now, as an example, I loved Netscape and Yahoo, and I now use IE and Google. Microsquish and other software developers have done so much, while others started up in the garage and became the mega-companies of today. I remember when Apple started in the guy’s garage. Yahoo and Facebook started in a similar location in a dorm room. Fascinating that 24 year old-type intelligent kids that wanted to solve a problem on the internet or make something easier to do became the Internet we know today. I can’t wait for the next episode. I can’t wait to see where the Internet takes us next.
Now can we get them working on how to get rid of spam???? Or if we can send denial of service responses back to spammers? Possibly a new start up for the venture capitalists?
Here are some links to the Science Channel Webpage. Good program that you would find fascinating:
http://science.discovery.com/tv/download/about/about.html
http://science.discovery.com/tv/download/download.html
The schedule:
http://science.discovery.com/tv-schedules/series.html?paid=48.14998.25448.32270.2
I was just chatting with the running pals about going to college pre-Internet, without cell phones, and do you remember the card catalogue? Do young kids still go to the place called the library? How nice it would be to stay in your dorm room, click click click in your jammies, instead of going to the big 13-story building where dark corridors loom with dusty unread books? Oregon State’s Library was a daunting place if I remember. I miss those days actually, finding treasures in the huge shelved rooms. A hunt that now seems to be solved by computer searches and the Internet. I was excited when the card catalogue became computerized. We live in interesting times and the Internet has been a tool that has grown beyond many people’s wildest expectations. I don’t go a day without doing something on the Internet. It seems that economics has played great deal in the Internet company revolution as well. At least until the companies compete against one another or the government gets involved and screws everything up.
Anyhow, it is interesting to watch the development of how the Internet came about, the software programs I liked and don’t exist now, as an example, I loved Netscape and Yahoo, and I now use IE and Google. Microsquish and other software developers have done so much, while others started up in the garage and became the mega-companies of today. I remember when Apple started in the guy’s garage. Yahoo and Facebook started in a similar location in a dorm room. Fascinating that 24 year old-type intelligent kids that wanted to solve a problem on the internet or make something easier to do became the Internet we know today. I can’t wait for the next episode. I can’t wait to see where the Internet takes us next.
Now can we get them working on how to get rid of spam???? Or if we can send denial of service responses back to spammers? Possibly a new start up for the venture capitalists?
Here are some links to the Science Channel Webpage. Good program that you would find fascinating:
http://science.discovery.com/tv/download/about/about.html
http://science.discovery.com/tv/download/download.html
The schedule:
http://science.discovery.com/tv-schedules/series.html?paid=48.14998.25448.32270.2
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