[ih] Internet History Project (was XEROX/PUP and Commercialization (was Re: FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on "Who Really Invented the Internet?")
Joly MacFie
joly at punkcast.com
Thu Jul 26 14:14:33 PDT 2012
I think the Internet Society would be a natural host for such
discussions, and the HoF a natural repository.. Certainly here in NY
we'd be happy to facilitate such.
j
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net> wrote:
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>
> On 7/26/2012 10:49 AM, Jack Haverty wrote:
>>
>> The CBI and others do a good job but they tend to be focused on the
>> history of the technology. I think that "Internet History" should
>> encompass more than the technical aspects, but should include how the
>> technology came out of the labs and diffused into the larger picture
>> to become an infrastructure of humanity.
>
>
>
> In terms of methodology, there is an important difference between one-on-one
> formal interviews of individual principals, versus a discussion amongst
> multiple principals.
>
> I think the latter is likely to do better at getting a view of the
> processes, such as Jack describes, as well as the tensions about the
> history.
>
>
> d/
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> Dave Crocker
> Brandenburg InternetWorking
> bbiw.net
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