History of the Internet
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1. History of the Internet
10 months ago
"History of the Internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org. You can already download a pre-release of all picol icons on blog.picol.org/downloads/icons/
You can see the credits and more information on this movie on
lonja.de/motion/mo_history_internet.html
The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org. You can already download a pre-release of all picol icons on blog.picol.org/downloads/icons/
You can see the credits and more information on this movie on
lonja.de/motion/mo_history_internet.html
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I can´t tell exactly how much time it took me produce this video, because I produced a lot of other stuff for my diploma. It took me about 2,5-3 month from research to the final rendering.
what font is that btw :)?
And the Animtion is basically done with C4D, some scenes are also made in After Effects. The whole sequences were put together in After Effects.
Thanks
where did the music come from? i could use some instrumental like that.
sorry I couldn´t put in all aspects of the internet. The movie is made to boost a first interest to the history of the internet. The rest is up to the interested.
Here you can other pieces of Telekaster who made the music for this clip
myspace.com/telekastermusiken
PICOL is set of icons. There are about 500 icons. Right now they are in the format .eps. I´m working on the .png files in 5 different sizes. A load of work. The icon set is beeing extended from time to time and modified if necessary. I want to promote the icons on picol.org but the website is still very buggy (because I´m no PHP crack :) But the thing is that the icons are free to use and welcome to use. That was the aim of my diploma, to ease electronic communication by a unified pictorial language.
It was amazing. Minimalism is the future.
About website, if you need some help in sound effects for you site, I will do it.
Like you're missing the meaningful differences between packet- and circuit-switching and how the telecom companies tried their hardest to kill packet-switching (by embracing X.25).
Also, crediting the OSI model with anything is hard to swallow for those of us who lived through the way the ITU tried to kill kill kill TCP/IP. The OSI model didn't even have an internet layer! They stuck it on the side later on when it became screamingly obvious that their vaunted 7-layer model was a crock.
The ITU was desperately trying to protect the monopoly control of the nationalized telecom companies by forcing all that into the "data link" layer. (Well it's either imagine a conspiracy like that or acknowledge that the ITU were completely asleep and had no understanding of IT. Which is more likely actually...)
Where'd you get all that so-called history from anyway?
for of all thanks for comment and additions.
I don´t understand if you mean that the history is wrong or incomplete. If it is not told in it´s exact detail, than I can yes. I wanted to make a draft overview about the history not a detailed technical history. The movie is made for people to get first insight in the history - the deeper look is up to them. I´m sorry if facts are missing or not told in detail you think are important. But 8 minutes is very short time, so I had to break it down.
The most important reference for this movie was:
amazon.de/Vom-Speicher-Verteiler-Geschichte-Internet/dp/3865990258
furthermore:
isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
archive.org/details/ComputerNetworks_TheHeraldsOfResourceSharing
computerhistory.org/internet_history/
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Sorry the book is written in German and the link of the univ
If you have some links on the history of the internet you can post it here.
I think the most important flaw that you included in the history is crediting the OSI 7-layer model. The Internet was built on a 4-layer model: physical, data link, internet, transport. The OSI model was: physical, data link, network, transport, session, presentation, application. You'll notice that the OSI model didn't have an "inter"net layer and that was because it was built with the telecom circuit model in mind. The notion of interconnecting networks that were managed by different (non-telco) entities was unimaginable to the ITU. If you look at the 7 layers in more depth, you'll see other horrible problems with it. It was a complete joke amongst the computer scientists who built the internet protocols.
(That is why the OSI model has been extensively revised, but that was after the fact! Crediting it with any role in developing the internet would be like crediting Jesus Christ with giving the Buddha ideas. The Buddha came first chronologically.)
Another included flaw is the bit on X.25. X.25 was developed by one individual who left the DARPA project and made a fortune selling it to telecom companies. It is completely unimportant in the history of the internet, X.25 had nothing whatsoever to do with the Internet! You might as well mention coca-cola or nutella.
Probably the major issues that you leave out are the significance of open standards and inter-operation. The motto of the folks who built the internet was "rough consensus and running code". The idea was that if you had an idea you implemented it. If others could implement the idea and your different implementations would inter-operate then people paid attention. Next you had to thoroughly document the protocol. This was an implicit (and often explicit) reaction against the ITU's OSI protocols, which were obviously designed with no actual experience from implementation. The research community shared their code (and still do). The open source movement did not begin with Linux. ;-)
The brilliant ideas behind the internet were packet-switching (statistical multiplexing, as opposed to time-division-multiplexing and circuit-switching) and completely open standards. In the 1980's there were many competing networking technologies, but they were either proprietary (eg IBM's SNA) or non-functional (eg the ITU's OSI protocols).
I have no better references than the isoc.org and computerhistory.org links. Those are good. You'll notice in them no mention of X.25.
Like I said, the video techniques are cool and the open source software looks good too.
Thanks,
Cliff
thank you very much for your detailed comment.
But the layering a network protocol was first mentioned in the osi reference model, wasn´t it? And the idea of layering a protocol was adapted in the TCP/IP protocol?
In the part with protocols I just list the three major and concurring ideas for the esatblishing networks.
You´re right that I forgot I major aspect to mention - that the tcp/ip protocol was Open Source and therefore established as standard.
Thanks again for your critics,
Melih
I don't know if the OSI reference model was the first to mention layering in a networking context. It would surprise me a lot if that is true!
After all, ever since the beginning, Computer Science has been all about creating more and more abstraction layers. The idea of "layering" was basically obvious by the late 1970's.
If the OSI model really did introduce the idea of layering in networking (which I doubt) that would have been a real contribution. But I'm willing to bet that the ITU simply took an existing computer science idea and took it to a logical extreme to describe their vision--which was how the telecom circuits would be used so telecom monopolies would continue to control communication.
If you look at the actual OSI model, however, you see a lot of complete idiocy. I already pointed out the lack of an Internet layer. Another example was locking the "session" layer under the "presentation" layer. This would force a data stream to be broken into multiple different streams *before* any translation could happen--ie it would force translation to be done multiple times on the same data stream.
But the major problem with layers 4-7 isn't illustrated by any one example. The problem is that it locked in a set of specific solutions long before anyone really knew what the problems were!
The Internet succeeded against enormous opposition. The major opponents were IT companies like IBM, DEC, Microsoft and many others; and the Telecom companies like AT&T, represented by the ITU. At the time, almost all the ITU member companies were actually government controlled monopolies like BT or France Telecom.
The ITU brought enormous political pressure to kill the Internet. All through the 1980s, those of us rolling out TCP/IP networks were told that this was simply an interim step on the way to the one "true" international standard represented by the ITU.
Fortunately, the ITU was completely unable to deliver anything remotely as useful as the Internet and eventually (after the ATM debacle) gave up.
Singing praises of the "OSI model" seems to me to be simply a form of "political correctness" carried over from long ago.
Cheers,
Cliff
one of the best part of the human history.
thanks
I noticed some noise in the music. Maybe some of the samples used were 8-bit?
Make a Sequel!
Al Gore correctly claimed to have voted for (perhaps sponsored) legislation that funded the fundamental research that led to (among other things) the invention of the Internet...
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sT0nNmClsmQ
Shared it with many friends.
Thank you !
Cheers,
M
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I really like his voice!
Very very very good.
Thanks a lot.