[IP] some earlish net videos]

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Subject: some earlish net videos
From:    "Carl Malamud" <carl@media.org>
Date:    Mon, July 16, 2007 8:28 pm
To:      dave@farber.net
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Hi Dave -

Thought your readers might be interested in some video from 1993
showing the early mbone tools in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZRIh2zYb-M

The youtube snippet has pointers to the full 2-hour program on
Google Video and Internet Archive.  (Also features Brewster
Kahle showing WAIS and Whit Diffie showing PKE.)

There's also a 1995 program featuring Eric Schmidt, plus the rep for
the then-white house, and the official spokespuppet for the cable
industry, all talking about the "nightmare scenario" of how
"only 2 or 3 major operators" would *never* dominate the industry
thus the "inconceivable" need for net neutrality regulation.
Eric called it right on the mark, even in retrospect.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4963482402269220136&hl=en
http://www.archive.org/details/sunergy_12_01_24_1995

(That program also features Marshall Rose and me talking about
ecommerce transactions and even a brief screen showing what
the first facility on the net that took money from strangers
looked like. :)

Regards,

Carl

P.S. If any of your readers have early VHS or BETACAM (or even film
or audiotape) of net history events or net historical figures doing
something, I'd be more than happy to digitize it and place it on
the Internet Archive. It is amazing how little of the record remains
for things 2 decades ago or even more recent events and people.



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