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Networking the Nerds - S1.E1 - Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet

Invention is rarely the isolated product of a lone scientist or engineer. Instead, every significant technology in the modern world is the product of a long history of numerous people and events. One of our most modern inventions, the Internet, is itself the result of decades of work and innovation by thousands of people who may have never dreamed of the possibility or potential of a global network. At the beginning of 1989 over 80,000 host computers were connected to what was now called the Internet. That same year, after some solemn thought, the aging ARPAnet was turned off signaling a transfer of the Internet from the hands of the Nerds to the Suits.

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Networking the Nerds - S1.E1 - Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet

November 25, 1998

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