Internet

A History of the Internet

January 7, 2009

I am fascinated by the origins of our present day internet so I am constantly intrigued by efforts to document the net’s evolution. “A History of the Internet” by Melih Bilgil is a brief animated video that documents how several separate international projects collaborated to create a worldwide distributed network. The production quality is excellent [...]

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How the Web Was Won

July 28, 2008

VanityFair.com has a wonderful article that details the History of the Internet as we know it. It is a lengthy piece (as it should be) and it is very deserving of your time. Enjoy This year marks the 50th anniversary of an extraordinary moment. In 1958 the United States government set up a special unit, [...]

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World Wide Web envisioned in 1934

June 24, 2008

NYTimes.com | The Web Time Forgot by Alex Wright | link In 1934 one man envisioned an interconnected network that would provide a method of sharing text, images, and video. Paul Otlet imagined a system comprised of telegraphs and index cards that connected via symbolic links. To have such a concept in 1934 is nothing [...]

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Internet Usage Pricing, necessary and beneficial

June 12, 2008

AT&T is considering usage based pricing Time Warner tries metering internet use Comcast mulling Net usage cap Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are smartly moving towards usage based pricing structures as opposed to our current all-you-can-eat buffet agreements of today. Although the ISPs will be vilified by many of my fellow geeks for adopting such service [...]

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Cable Companies debut Wideband and talk about Tru2way

June 11, 2008

Kyle McLarrow, the CEO and President of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), spoke yesterday to the National Press Club about innovations within the Cable ISP market. It was an excellent talk that introduced two “new” technologies being spear-headed by the Cable companies, Wide-Band & Tru2Way. Wideband is the generic marketing term that refers [...]

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Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

June 7, 2008

There is a looming disaster and it is called The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The ACTA is a treaty that is being pushed by the United States as well as the EU, Japan, and Switzerland that seeks to address intellectual property enforcement. The agreement is being framed very similar to NAFTA but this time it [...]

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Superfast Internet?

May 7, 2008

The Sunday Times | Coming Soon: Superfast Internet | Jonathan Leake | Apr 6 2008 Scientists involved in the Large Hydron Collider project (LHC) realized early on that the current internet infrastructure would crumble under the amount of data that LHC will generate. “LHC would generate annual data equivalent to 56m CDs – enough to [...]

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Comcast won’t interfere in P2P

April 9, 2008

CNN.com | Mar 27 2008 | link Comcast does an about-face and says that it will treat all traffic equally. Comcast has said that its practices were necessary to keep file-sharing traffic from overwhelming local cable lines, where neighbors share capacity with one another. On Thursday, Comcast said that by the end of the year, [...]

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