[ih] Snapshot of the Internet

[John Lowry]

I always thought there was something in this speech that the missing history of the transition of the Internet should address.  Disturbingly from a movie titled “Network”.

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechnetwork4.html


> On Jun 5, 2021, at 5:10 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> Yes, I pointed to that map because I found it thought provoking. It seems there should be a very interesting "History of the Internet" chapter on Governance - how the Internet was steered and developed into what it is today.
> 
> IMHO, at the beginning of the Internet, governance was pretty much in the form of Plato's (and others') "benevolent dictator" structure.   ARPA, mainly Vint and Bob, were the dictators, steering the Internet by controlling the purse strings of funding contracts.   That certainly changed as the 'net grew, other players joined, and other societal interests exerted influence.
> 
> I have no idea how to describe Internet governance today, or how it got from there to here.  If someone writes that chapter, I'd love to read it....
> 
> /Jack
> 
> 
>> On 6/5/21 1:29 PM, Karl Auerbach wrote:
>> That's quite a map!!  Reminds me of the social clustering  maps I did at UCLA. and Berkeley.
>> 
>> I wonder what that map might say about the notion of governance of the internet based on various kinds of "territory", whether those be national, institutional (e.g. the "nation" of Google+Youtube), protocol (IPv4 and IPv6  - which could be interesting if the substrate, such as 5G were included), etc?
>> 
>> The thought that crossed my mind was how we once divided law and authority (at least in Europe) based on whether the matter or the people involved  were secular or religious.  Could the Internet be moving in a similar direction?
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>>     --karl--
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>>> On 6/5/21 10:24 AM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
>>> This seemed like it might be of historical interest, and an interesting way to envision the big-picture state of the Internet today:
>>> 
>>> https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-online-world-mapped-2021/
>>> 
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