[ih] Internet History Project (was XEROX/PUP and Commercialization (was Re: FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on"WhoReally Invented theInternet22)?=

[dgale at internethistoryarchive.org]

The idea to collect oral histories about the creation of the Internet is so compelling that I began collecting oral interviews about 10 years ago while traveling on other business.  That archive now contains more than a hundred hours of audio and video material.  There is very little overlap between these interviews and interviews done by other groups such as the IEEE, the Computer History Museum and Andreu Vea.  

Upon my recent retirement that hobby project morphed into a 501(c)3 non-profit whose primary objective is to preserve information and original source materials about the creation and evolution of the Internet.  All of the materials being collected are being placed in the public domain and will be accessible on the web. 

We have worked closely with Jeff Yost at the Charles Babbage Institute, which has agreed in principle to be the final repository for the materials collected, as well as several other universities and organizations.  We also have a prototype web site,

www.internetlegacyinstitute.org 

that includes a list of the interviews already completed.  

Our original intent was to have more of the organizational details worked and then send out a call for participation to this list.  But with the interest shown in this thread, we are accelerating that request.  We will be sending out our first email newsletter shortly. 

Our short-term goals are more interviews, an interactive wiki for content submission, transcriptions of existing interviews, and moving the web site from prototype to production status.  

Doug Gale
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>From: dave.walden.family at gmail.com [mailto:dave.walden.family at gmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 09:57 AM
>To: 'Noel Chiappa'
>Cc: internet-history at postel.org, jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
>Subject: Re: [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:
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>>> From: Jack Haverty <jack at 3kitty.org>
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>>> 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"?  
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>> The Charles Babbage Institute already has an extensive oral history program
>> in information technology:
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>>  http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/
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>> 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
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