How did the Internet first begin? Why was it developed at the Advanced Research Projects Agency? Where was it initially launched at the end of the 1960s? Is it pronounced r-OO-ter or r-OW-ter?? These and other hard-hitting questions are answered as Jared & Ayush take a deep dive into the birth of humanity’s global computer network…with a dash of 90s nostalgia thrown in for good measure.

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

Links & Show Notes:

• Follow Just a Spec on Mastodon
• The Spicy Web & That HTML Blog
• Episode 15: The Plumbing That Makes the Web Move
• Packet switching (Wikipedia)
• The first Internet connection, with UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock (YouTube)
• How the Internet Was Invented: Part 1 (YouTube)
• How the Internet Came to Be | Part 2 (YouTube)
• Did the U.S. Government Invent the Internet? | History (YouTube)
• How the Internet was born: The network begins to take shape (The Conversation)
• The Internet Review (born in 1996, reborn in 2024)
• 1989 Networking Poems!