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

[John Day]

CBI is probably more appropriate.

At 17:14 -0400 2012/07/26, Joly MacFie wrote:
>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.
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>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:
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>>>  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.
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>>  In terms of methodology, there is an important difference between one-on-one
>>  formal interviews of individual principals, versus a discussion amongst
>>  multiple principals.
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>>  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.
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>>  d/
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>>  --
>>   Dave Crocker
>>   Brandenburg InternetWorking
>>   bbiw.net
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