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THE INTERNET // A FIFTY-YEAR HISTORY

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┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ THE INTERNET ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A FIFTY-YEAR HISTORY BOOTING ARCHIVE Key sections include: THE INTERNET; A FIFTY-YEAR HISTORY; ARPANET // FIRST NODE; RAY TOMLINSON // @; CERF & KAHN // TCP/IP; BERNERS-LEE // CERN; MOSAIC // NCSA; THE GOLD RUSH; DOT-COM // CRASH; WEB 2.0 // PLATFORM ERA.

Key sections

  • 01THE INTERNET
  • 02A FIFTY-YEAR HISTORY
  • 03ARPANET // FIRST NODE
  • 04RAY TOMLINSON // @
  • 05CERF & KAHN // TCP/IP
  • 06BERNERS-LEE // CERN
  • 07MOSAIC // NCSA
  • 08THE GOLD RUSH
  • 09DOT-COM // CRASH
  • 10WEB 2.0 // PLATFORM ERA
  • 11MOBILE // SOCIAL // SURVEILLANCE
  • 12GENERATIVE AI // CHATGPT
  • 13WHAT SURVIVED
  • 14FURTHER VIEWING

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  1. 01THE INTERNET
  2. 02A FIFTY-YEAR HISTORY
  3. 03ARPANET // FIRST NODE
  4. 04RAY TOMLINSON // @
  5. 05CERF & KAHN // TCP/IP
  6. 06BERNERS-LEE // CERN
  7. 07MOSAIC // NCSA
  8. 08THE GOLD RUSH
  9. 09DOT-COM // CRASH
  10. 10WEB 2.0 // PLATFORM ERA
  11. 11MOBILE // SOCIAL // SURVEILLANCE
  12. 12GENERATIVE AI // CHATGPT
  13. 13WHAT SURVIVED
  14. 14FURTHER VIEWING
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Slide 01

THE INTERNET

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  • └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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  • A FIFTY-YEAR HISTORY
  • BOOTING ARCHIVE
  • 1969 ─── 2026
Slide 02

ARPANET // FIRST NODE

  • ▓ TRANSMISSION 01 ▓
  • 1969
  • UCLA → STANFORD │ OCT 29, 1969 │ 22:30 PST
  • Charley Kline tries to log in to a remote computer for the first time in history.
  • He typed L. It came through. He typed O. It came through. He typed G. The system crashed. The Internet's first message was "lo".
  • [UCLA]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[SRI]
  • │ │
  • │ │
  • [UCSB]━━━━━━━━━━━[UTAH] ── 4 NODES ──
Slide 03

RAY TOMLINSON // @

  • ▓ TRANSMISSION 02 ▓
  • 1971
  • At BBN in Cambridge, Ray Tomlinson sends the first networked email between two PDP-10s sitting next to each other.
  • He needs a symbol to separate user from host. He looks at his keyboard. He picks @ — a key that wasn't used for anything else.
  • ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
  • │ tomlinson @ bbn-tenexa │
  • │ ────────────────────────── │
  • │ > QWERTYUIOP │
  • │ │
  • │ "I sent a number of test │
  • │ messages to myself from │
  • │ one machine to the other." │
  • └──────────────────────────────────┘
  • ─── ONE CHARACTER, FOREVER ───
Slide 04

CERF & KAHN // TCP/IP

  • ▓ TRANSMISSION 03 ▓
  • 1973 — 1983
  • Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn design a protocol for networks of networks — packet-switched, decentralized, layered.
  • JAN 1, 1983 — "FLAG DAY". ARPANET cuts over from NCP to TCP/IP overnight. The internet, technically, begins.
  • ─── A NETWORK OF NETWORKS ───
Slide 05

BERNERS-LEE // CERN

  • ▓ TRANSMISSION 04 ▓
  • 1989 — 1991
  • Tim Berners-Lee writes a memo titled "Information Management: A Proposal." His boss writes on it: "vague, but exciting."
  • ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐
  • │ HTML │ │ HTTP │ │ URL │
  • │ ───────── │ ── │ ───────── │ ── │ ───────── │
  • │ documents │ │ transport │ │ addresses │
  • └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘
  • The first website goes live in December 1990. It is about itself: a page explaining what the World Wide Web is.
Slide 06

MOSAIC // NCSA

  • ▓ TRANSMISSION 05 ▓
  • 1993
  • Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina release Mosaic at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
  • It puts images inline with text. It runs on Windows, Mac, X. The web becomes visible to civilians.
Slide 07

THE GOLD RUSH

  • ▓ TRANSMISSION 06 ▓
  • 1994 — 1995
  • 1994 ── Yahoo! founded by Jerry Yang & David Filo
  • 1994 ── Amazon founded as an online bookstore
  • 1995 ── eBay founded (originally "AuctionWeb")
  • AUG 9 1995 ── Netscape IPO. $28 → $75 in one day.
  • A company with $17M in revenue is suddenly worth $2.9 billion. Wall Street has discovered the web.
  • $$$ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↑↑↑
Slide 08

DOT-COM // CRASH

  • ▓ TRANSMISSION 07 ▓
  • 2000
  • Pets.com. Webvan. Boo.com. Kozmo. The graveyard fills.
  • The NASDAQ falls 78% from peak by October 2002. $5 trillion in market value evaporates.
  • The infrastructure remains. Dark fiber is laid. The survivors learn.
Slide 09

WEB 2.0 // PLATFORM ERA

  • ▓ TRANSMISSION 08 ▓
  • 2004 — 2007
  • 2004 ── Facebook launches at Harvard
  • 2005 ── YouTube uploads its first video ("Me at the zoo")
  • 2006 ── Twitter, AWS S3, the API economy begins
  • JAN 2007 ── iPhone announced. Internet goes in your pocket.
  • The user becomes the product. The page becomes the feed. The browser becomes a runtime.
  • ─── READ → WRITE → SCROLL ───
Slide 10

MOBILE // SOCIAL // SURVEILLANCE

  • ▓ TRANSMISSION 09 ▓
  • 2010s
  • The decade of consolidation. Five companies — Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta — capture the bulk of attention, infrastructure, and value.
  • ┌──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
  • │ AAPL │ AMZN │ GOOG │ MSFT │ META │
  • │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓▓ │ ▓▓▓▓ │
  • └──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
  • Snowden, 2013. Cambridge Analytica, 2018. The cost of "free" comes due. The open web shrinks. Apps replace pages.
Slide 11

GENERATIVE AI // CHATGPT

  • ▓ TRANSMISSION 10 ▓
  • 2022
  • NOV 30, 2022 │ 100M USERS IN 2 MONTHS
  • A model trained on the open web — Wikipedia, Common Crawl, Reddit, GitHub, books, papers — speaks back in fluent English.
  • The web becomes both training data and competitor. Search begins to dissolve. Every interface becomes a chat box.
  • > THE WEB ───────► THE CORPUS ───────► THE MODEL ───────► ?
Slide 12

WHAT SURVIVED

  • ▓ TRANSMISSION 11 ▓
  • ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  • │ │
  • │ THE PROTOCOLS SURVIVED. │
  • │ │
  • │ THE PLATFORMS CONSUMED. │
  • │ │
  • └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
  • TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, SMTP — built by committee, owned by no one — are still doing their jobs sixty years later.
  • The applications layered on top — walled, captured, monetized — change every decade. The pipes underneath do not.
  • ─── ROUGH CONSENSUS & RUNNING CODE ───
Slide 13

FURTHER VIEWING

  • ▓ END OF TRANSMISSION ▓
  • ╭─────────────╮
  • ╭──╯ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ╰──╮
  • ╭─╯ ▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒ ╰─╮
  • │ ▒▒▒ ╲____╱ ▒▒▒ │
  • │ ▒▒ __╱ ╲__ ▒▒ │
  • │ ▒▒ ╱ ARPA ╲ ▒▒ │
  • │ ▒▒ ╲ 1969 ╱ ▒▒ │
  • │ ▒▒ ╲________╱ ▒▒ │
  • ╰─╮ ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒ ╭─╯
  • ╰──╮ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ╭──╯
  • ╰─────────────╯
  • ╲ ╲ │ ╱ ╱
  • ╲ ╲ │ ╱ ╱
  • ╲──────╲──┴──╱──────╱
  • ━━━━━━━
  • YOUTUBE // ARPANET HISTORY
  • youtube.com/results?search_query=arpanet+history
  • YOUTUBE // TIM BERNERS-LEE & THE WEB
  • youtube.com/results?search_query=tim+berners-lee+web
  • CONNECTION TERMINATED
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