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The Heralds of Resource Sharing

by davidcrow


“The success of a network will depend by in large how the user views it. You have to give the user something more then he gets at the present time”—John R. Pasta

BoingBoing includes a link to a “1972 documentary on the ARPAnet” – * Computer Networks: The Hearlds of Resource Sharing*. The 30 minute documentary includes interviews with:

  • F.J. Corbato, MIT
  • J.C.R. Licklider, MIT
  • Lawrence G. Roberts, ARPA
  • Robert E. Kahn, BBN
  • Frank Heart, BBN
  • William R. Sutherland, BBN
  • Richard W. Watson, SRI
  • John R. Pasta, NSF
  • Donald W. Davies, National Physical Laboratory (U.K.)
  • George W. Mitchell, Federal Reserve System

“Thos who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”—George Santayana, 1905

My next trip to Silicon Valley must include a visit to the Computer History Museum. More details about the development of ARPANet and the personal computer can be found in M. Mitchell Waldrop’s The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution that Made Computing Personal and Katie Hafner’s Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet. George Dyson presented one of my favourite sessions at ETech and his talk from ETech 2005 is available at IT Conversations.

Posted on March 20, 2006 Filed Under: Articles

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