which is more interesting than Clone Wars (in either live or animated versions). See below Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology University of Toronto 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:11:59 +0100 From: martin dodge <m.dodge@manchester.ac.uk> Subject: history of NSFNET with maps of network growth Ancient history in Internet time...... 5. NSF and the Birth of the Internet [Macromedia Flash Player] http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/ The birth of the Internet is the subject of this utterly engaging and well- thought out special report created by the National Science Foundation. After a brief introduction, visitors can browse through a multimedia site that includes video clips of early pioneers talking about their work on this endeavor, along with maps of Internet growth from the 1960s to the 1990s and documents such as the Lax Report. Interestingly enough the Lax Report, issued in 1982, was influential in the creation of the National Science Foundation's supercomputing centers. The materials are divided up by decade (1960s through the 2000s) and visitors can click on each section to learn about the advances and challenges faced by persons working in this field. Along the way, a small section in the bottom right-hand corner of the site keeps a running total of the baud rate and the Internet users in each decade. Of course, visitors will not want to miss the section dedicated to Mosaic, which was the browser developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in the early 1990s. [KMG] Courtesy of Internet Scout report http://scout.wisc.edu/ ------------------------------ End of MAPPING-CYBERSPACE Digest - 11 Apr 2008 to 16 Aug 2008 (#2008-5) ***********************************************************************