inception
HELLO WORLD!
What better way to start off a blog than with a little interwebs history?
July’s issue of Vanity Fair has an “oral history” documenting the creation and milestones behind the internet through quotes from some of the most influential individuals involved. Comments range from Vint Cerf (co-designer of TCP/IP and Google’s current “Chief Internet Evangelist”) to Cindy Margolis (Guinness record book title holder of “most downloaded woman”).
The biggest photo spread? Nope not Al Gore, but three researchers you’ve probably never heard of. The corporate/government/academic trio of Paul Baran, Larry Robert, and Leonard Kleinrock who, in a classic example of how research used to work, completely revamped the concept of how a network could and should function.
The best little sound byte comes from Jeff Bezos on [his/Amazon's] investment in a pre-bubble pets.com:
“I think the only thing I ended up with out of that investment is a sock puppet. An expensive sock puppet.”
Ah.. sock puppets… Check the piece out here.
