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

[Vint Cerf]

ENUM was supposed to help with that mapping but...
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 2:59 PM Toerless Eckert via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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
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