Musings and things that amuse us

Video by Jesse Thomas / @jess3

A seven minute video that walks you through the history of the Internet.  Including the groups that made up its foundation: ARPANET, RAND, NPL, CYCLADES.

History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

Did you know:

The number of years it took to reach a market audience of 50 Million?

Radio: 38

Television: 13

Internet: 4

If you want to know more, watch this video

Intel co-founder, Gordon Moore says “It’s not the end of the road,” when it comes to Moore’s Law.

From the BBC Watch: (approx. 1 min 50 sec)

From the Intel Developers Forum 2007, take a look at the last ten years of silicon chips: (approx 4 min 30 secs):

Came across this interesting post by “some dude from Orlando” which lists the 100 oldest domain names.

Notable omission is microsoft.com, which wasn’t registered until 1991.  It wasn’t until 1995 that Microsoft acknowledged that the Internet was not just a passing fad, and scrapped the soon to be released “Microsoft Network”, its very own version of a private network much like CompuServe/AOL.

google.com was registed in 1997.