[ih] Internet History Project (was XEROX/PUP and Commercialization (was Re: FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on "Who Really Invented the Internet?")

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Being professional historians, I suspect CBI needs funding to do a series of interviews.  I am pretty sure they had funding when Norberg and O'Neil did the interviews (mentioned in the earlier message below) relating to ARPA IPTO.  One could ask Tom Misa or Jeff Yost at CBI how such interviews happen.   Then there is Andreu Vea's series of interviews; see WiWiW.org


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On Jul 25, 2012, at 10:36 PM, jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) wrote:

>> From: Jack Haverty <jack at 3kitty.org>
> 
>> The idea of projects to proactively capture recollections is a good
>> one. You would think that an entity such as The Internet .. would
>> attract the attention of not only technical museums, but also archives
>> and organizations capturing general human history.
>> ...
>> Perhaps the Library of Congress (and other similar institutions) could
>> be motivated to launch an analogous "Internet History Project"?  
> 
> The Charles Babbage Institute already has an extensive oral history program
> in information technology:
> 
>  http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/
> 
> A number of names from networking stuff already appear in that list (Baran,
> Cerf, SCrocker, Heart, Kahn, Kleinrock, Mills, Walden). I would probably try
> and get them involved if you wanted to do a more extensive networking oral
> history project; they know how to do this, to get the maximum historical
> value.
> 
>    Noel