The Internet Revealed in 1993

Stewart Cheifet and guest on the set of Computer Chronicles

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).