The Internet Revealed in 1993
Stewart Cheifet‘s show Computer Chronicles was one that chronicled the evolution of personal computing, digital devices as well as enabling technologies like this networking technology we know as “The Internet.” His Computer Chronicles YouTube channel is an archive of shows that reported on some of the most important developments in all of those areas, especially this particular show which covered this nascent networking technology we now cannot live without.
Fun Factoid
For those of you in Minnesota, at 9:37 you will see a brief demonstration of Gopher, a protocol developed and released in 1991 by a Mark P. McCahill-led team at the University of Minnesota. Since universities were heavy pre-commercial-and-world_wide_web-internet users, they needed something to make it easier to find stuff. Gopher was “...designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet. The Gopher protocol was strongly oriented towards a menu-document design and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately HTTP became the dominant protocol. The Gopher ecosystem is often regarded as the effective predecessor of the World Wide Web.” (my emphasis).
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Connecting the Dots Podcast
Podcasting hit the mainstream in July of 2005 when Apple added podcast show support within iTunes. I'd seen this coming so started podcasting in May of 2005 and kept going until August of 2007. Unfortunately was never 'discovered' by national broadcasters, but made a delightfully large number of connections with people all over the world because of these shows. Click here to view the archive of my podcast posts.