[ih] Internet-history Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1

[Toerless Eckert]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 07:56:56AM -1000, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history wrote:
> and let's not forget that in 1967 there was
> The Science of Microelectronics
> in *The President's Analyst, viz.: *
> "the Cerebrum Communicator or the CC for short"
> (for which there is an awesome demo clip) of at:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuwF3dRJiS8
> 
> for anyone who has not seen this seminal film, it's a MUST SEE! :D

TPC.INT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phone_Company

Interesting to see how E164 is still alive and kicking, primarily now (IMHO) for
SMS authentication and not telephony anymore, but we still do not have good
mapping between E164 and Internet name spaces. I guess its part of the great
divide (ISOC vs. Governments).

Toerless

> geoff
> 
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 7:07 AM Don Hopkins via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> > > On Jul 6, 2020, at 17:25, Miles Fidelman via Internet-history <
> > internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 7/6/20 10:52 AM, John Gilmore via Internet-history wrote:
> > >
> > >>> I answered him that thirty years of the internet has been a spectacular
> > >>> time of development. Can you imagine the word fighting the COVID-19
> > >>> pandemic without the internet? If there were no internet, there could
> > be
> > >>> very little working from home, no online classes for students stuck at
> > >>> home, no video communication with family and friends, much more
> > loneliness,
> > >> In 1992 John Perry Barlow called for "connecting every mind to every
> > >> other mind in full-duplex broadband. ... The creation of ... a
> > >> ubiquitous digital web, [for] ... telephone service, e-mail, software,
> > >> faxes, ... 'video postcards', and, in time, High Definition Television
> > >> as well as other media as yet barely imagined."  He called it The Great
> > >> Work.
> > >
> > > Long before that, Licklider wrote:
> > >
> > > "The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing
> > machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting
> > partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data
> > in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know
> > today."  (In "Man-Computer Symbiosis," 1960,
> > https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html)
> > >
> > > And, of course, he's the one who wrote the famous "MEMORANDUM FOR:
> > Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network," in 1963 (
> > https://www.kurzweilai.net/memorandum-for-members-and-affiliates-of-the-intergalactic-computer-network
> > ).
> > >
> > > Miles Fidelman
> >
> >
> > Even longer before that, Mary Shelley wrote:
> >
> > ???It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that
> > account we shall be more attached to one another.???
> >
> > And a bit later, Mel Brooks wrote:
> >
> > "Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot
> > long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME???? -Dr.
> > Frederick Frankenstein
> >
> > -Don