How giant human-powered calculators became the internet
summary
Three origin stories anchor specific claims: Vannevar Bush proposes the Memex never built as a conceptual hyperlinking device; Douglas Engelbart proves those ideas in 1968 with an onstage demo that debuts the first mouse and interactive hypertext editing plus early email, video conferencing and versioning tools; Elizabeth Feinler runs the NIC, publishes a ~1,000‑page directory, maintains the flat hosts table that becomes DNS, organizes top‑level domains and pulls off the TCP/IP cutover in 1983 so the network actually scales.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:22The Memex
- 2:59Doug Engelbart
- 6:14ARPANET
- 8:55Network Information Center
- 11:24Email
- 13:05Hosting
- 13:40TCPIP
- 14:22Other networks
- 15:00Why did the internet win
- 17:03Epilogue
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