Una historia oral de la Red
LPC en copyfight | Junio 16, 2008
Liferfe me ha mandado este enlace increíble con una rave sobre los mapas en Baltimore y, todo serendipia, me he encontrado el primer mapa de la Red, de Joyce Reynolds. En 1982, la Red Arpanet tenía 88 ordenadores y el diagrama casi parece croche.
Y digo serendipia no por los mapas, que han sido la gran obsesión del año en mi casa, sino porque precisamente hoy me había leído el último Vanity Fair (el de Angelina), donde celebran el 50 aniversario del nacimiento del ARPA con una historia oral de la Red: How the Web Was Won.
Bob Taylor: There were individual instances of interactive computing through time-sharing, sponsored by arpa, scattered around the country. In my office in the Pentagon I had one terminal that connected to a time-sharing system at M.I.T. I had another one that connected to a time-sharing system at U.C. Berkeley. I had one that connected to a time-sharing system at the System Development Corporation, in Santa Monica. There was another terminal that connected to the Rand Corporation.And for me to use any of these systems, I would have to move from one terminal to the other. So the obvious idea came to me: Wait a minute. Why not just have one terminal, and it connects to anything you want it to be connected to? And, hence, the Arpanet was born.
Todos los capítulos están online y recomiendo mucho leerlos:
I: The Conception
II: The Creation
III: The Web
IV: The Browser Wars
V: Going Public
VI: Boom and Bust
VII: Modern Times
VIII: The Last Word
Bola extra: Galería de protagonistas.
Me gusta especialmente una cosa que dice Paul Baran:
I get credit for a lot of things I didn’t do. I just did a little piece on packet switching and I get blamed for the whole goddamned Internet, you know? Technology reaches a certain ripeness and the pieces are available and the need is there and the economics look good—it’s going to get invented by somebody.

No debemos de olvidar tampoco la enorme aportación de Brianna Bragg en cuanto a la propagación de nodos. Os recomiendo el "BTGA episode", es creative commons.
Puesto por Bangbross a las Junio 16, 2008 11:18 AM