Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History of the Internet

What is the current name and the former name of the ball park where the SF Giant play?

Current- 3Com, Former- Candlestick Park

According to Bob Metcalfe, where/what/when is the Information Age?

The internet, present

What examples are given to show how fast things are moving on the internet?

Number of users; 3 million → 100 million → 1 billion

At the time of the release of this video, what percentage of American schools have access to the Internet?

70%

What has Edwin Chiu done with his life?

Invented a goped (moped and go kart ) and laser beam pointer from dental floss box

What was the original name of the company started by six guys in a garage (including Graham)? What is the name of their company now? What were these guys "smart enough to see"?

Original- Architext, Current- Excite, information technology was going to be a big business

According to John Doerr, what was the "largest single legal creation of wealth on the planet"? How much does he say the new web companies are worth at this point?

PC, $40 billion

What role is the Adult industry playing in the growth of the internet?

Mature content

Notes about Amazon.com

-Started as being a virtual bookstore
-Founder: Jeff Bezos
-Started in Seattle

What is the name of the Venture Capitalist who funded the Architect/Excite guys? What did he like about them?

Vinod Khosla, good character

According to Steve Jobs, what's one of the biggest advantages of the Internet?

Communication

According to Steve Balmer, what drives the Internet?

Email

What is "The WELL"?

One of the oldest electronic meeting place

What's wrong with cyber-romances (according to the video)?

Lack of emotional interchange

In the (Silicon) Valley young entrepreneurs recruiting a CEO is referred to as...

Adult Supervision

About three years after the Architext/Excite guys went public, how much was each worth?

$10 million

What do we owe it all to the Russians? What is Sputnik? How did Sputnik put two US presidents into action?

Satellite launched by USSR in 1957, techno initiations

What did Eisenhower create?

ARPA- Agency to fund high powered scientific and space research

What did Kennedy do (involving space)?

Landed a man on the moon

Who was responsible for ARPA?

The Pentagon

What did Pentagon scientist decide "had the right stuff"?

Computers

Who got all the media's attention in the 1960s?

Space Race

Notes about computers of the 1960s

-Size of small apartments
-Use was strictly rationed
-Only a few people could use them/get near them

What "visionary psychologist at MIT" saw the growing potential of computer technology and had an early concept of the intergalactic network? Did he know how to build it?

JCR Licklider AKA "Lick", No clue how to build it

By the mid-60s, what program was regularly sending men into orbit?

Gemini

At the same time, who was funding mainframe computers for research at major universities?

DARPA

What was the scientific name of the system that allowed more people computer access to a mainframe?

Timeshare

According to Cringely, where were the Internet and the World Wide Web "born"?

US Pentagon

What is DARPA? What was its function/purpose? What is the acronym?

Pentagon Project, research interest of people controlling the money, Defense Advance Research Project Agency

What was Bob Taylor's responsibility at ARPA/ the Pentagon? What did he decide to start?

Spending the Pentagons Budget for computer research, ARPAnet

What was Taylor on a mission to do? How much money did he ask for to do it? Did he get it?

Networking all of ARPA's computers together, $1 million, yes

Where was the internet invented?

Pentagon

How did the universities involved react to the ARPAnet?

Weren't enthusiastic, saw ARPAnet as a threat

What space program succeeded Gemini? What type of mission were involved?

Apollo, Lunar

What universities did Taylor begin with ARPAnet?

UCLA, UC Santa Barbra, Stanford, University of Utah

Cringely Crash Course in Geek: Digital =

Information can be represented as a string of 0, 1 (binary)

Who is Larry Roberts?

MIT Computer scientist, Chief architect of ARPAnet

Who is Len Kleinrock?

Colleague of Larry Roberts, mathematician - gambler

What is the "true birthplace of the Information Age"? In the 60s it was the hub of what?

New England, Advanced computer research

Besides the Boston Tea Party, Harvard, and MIT what high-tech engineering company was the Boston/Cambridge area known for?

BBN

Who was Dave Walden? Frank Hart? Severo Ornstein?

All part of the team on BBN:
Walden - made juggling a hobby throughout the office
Hart - System engineer, tough manager
Ornstein - Musician and rock climber later founded computer scientist for social responsibility

What did Apollo 8 accomplish?

First men to orbit the moon

What did "theory" Len Kleinrock "uncover" in his Ph.D. dissertation?

Underlying principles of data network

Glossary of Geek: Packet =

Little chucks of data sent thought a network

How were phone lines used with "packets" in the new network?

Packets were sent over phone lines

Who is Vince Cerf?

Designed ARPAnet, from UCLA

Who is Bob Khan?

Designed ARPAnet, from BBN

What two "monster companies" declined to get involved with building a network of mainframes over telephone lines?

ATT and IBM

Whats the difference between people talking over phone lines and a computer sending bursts of data over a phone line?

Computers do it quickly and more efficiently

Why are packets like postcards?

They have to and from addresses, finite amount of content, could get lost

What is an IMP? What function did it perform? What is it called today?

Interface Message Processor, packet switching, router

How many months did it take for the folks working on the ARPAnet to finish their work?

9 months

What happened seven weeks before the ARPAnet came alive?

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon

What was the first message on the Internet?

Login

What catalog did Hippie/Hacker Stewart Brand found?

Whole Earth catalog

Why did he think computers were better than drugs?

Drugs never got any better, and more money could be made form computers

What potential did Ted Nelson see for computer networking in his book "Computer Lib"? Evolving ideas...

tools of liberation

What did computers have to do with "Power to People" according to these hippies/hackers?

People have the tools to do things

What networking technology was used in Hawaii in place of phone lines?

Aloha net

What drew Norm Abramson to Hawaii?

The surf

What was the first network to transmit data into a computer by means of radio waves rater than telephone lines or conventional wires? Wireless data...

Aloha net

By 1970 Packet-switching networks were running where?

On phone lines, radio, and satellites internationally

What's the "problem" in the 70s with the other networks beside ARPAnet? Why couldn't programs be sent between these networks?

Each network was different, with own rules, couldn't send packets from one network to another. There was no common language

Why does Frank Hear compare the network at that time to a new highway system with no cars

Network was undersused

Glossary of Geek: TCP/IP

-Transmission control protocol, internet protocol
-Determines how computer networks talk to each other

Protocol =

The rules that control how different computers talk to each other

What two guys invented TCP/IP?

Bob Con and Vint Cerf

What was the "killer app" of the IBM PC? The Macintosh? the Internet?

Spreadsheet, Desktop publishing, A way of communicating- email

Where and when was electronic mail invented? Who invented it?

BBN in 1972, Ray Tomlinson

How wealthy are the inventors of the Internet today?

Not very