The Retrobits Podcast

Show 037: The ARPANET

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HTTP.  FTP.  SMTP.  NNTP.  Many letters, one heritage...

Welcome to Show 037!  This week's Topic: The ARPANET!

Topics and links discussed in the podcast...

Electronics that act like a physical disk drive - awesome idea.  Check

it out at the Semi-Virtual Diskette site!
It's Vegas, Baby!  And Commodore fun!  The
Commodore Vegas Expo (CommVex) 2.0
will be held on July 29 and 30, 2006...
An Internet Pioneer Ponders the Next Revolution -
an interview with Robert Taylor on nytimes.com!
Here's a tribute to J C R Licklider,
including a link to a PDF of two of his seminal papers on man-computer synergy
that inspired the Internet.
Wikipedia articles on the ARPANET
and Licklider - always a
great place to start.
And here's an online
history of the Internet, including it's ARPANET heritage, on the Internet
Society website.

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Our Theme Song is "Sweet" from the "Re-Think" album by Galigan.

Thanks for listening!

- Earl

 

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