[ih] internet artifacts

[Jack Haverty]

Very interesting, thanks!    Two things I noticed:

1/ There is a picture of the Arpanet, but no classic "Internet" diagrams 
at all.  Their definition of "Internet Artifacts" seems to include 
experiences such as Compuserve, Usenet, etc.

2/ More generally, the museum perspective seems to be from the 
end-users' experiences, curating all of the things they have encountered 
over the years in the online world.   That seems in sharp contrast to 
the "techie" perspective (such as this list) , which focusses on 
protocols, algorithms,  and mechanisms based on IP datagrams.   IMHO, 
techies (us, IETF, ISOC, etc) view "The Internet" as a computer 
communications infrastructure which has a growing horde of "apps" that 
someone else has built on top.   In contrast, the masses of end-users 
view "The Internet" as that same collection of apps that they can use to 
do whatever they do, and the underlying communications mechanism is 
irrelevant to them.

You know you're old when you see something you used to use now displayed 
in a museum.  It's even worse when you see something you built in that 
museum....

Jack Haverty

On 11/22/23 09:52, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
> https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/
>
> v