This is a story that I tell people over and over when I meet them – so I figured I would make a blog post so I could have it written down somewhere.<\/p>\n
I am an accidental Internet historian. It all started in 1995-1999 I hosted a Cable television program with my friend Rich Wiggins that was a talk show about the Internet that ended up with three names over time as the cable TV companies bought one another over that period. Here is a YouTube of those (3) shows:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLlRFEj9H3Oj5Dlcu6P92S5dpmb3ihr7QW https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL4660FB7F523B1770 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8jysBmy5Bec https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/learn\/insidetheinternet
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\nThis led to me having lots of cool early Internet video and for a number of years I wrote a column called Computing Conversations in IEEE Computer Magazine that wrote a short print article with an associated video interview. Here is a Youtube Channel of that work:<\/p>\n
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\nYou can see my old material and new interviews since 2012 interwoven. I also attach a couple of articles to give you a sample. We even made an NPR-style audio interview for each of the columns:<\/p>\n
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\nThen in 2012, I re-did all this material in the form of a Coursera class titled Internet History, Technology, and Security – that is how Niel and I crossed paths. Here is the course and a Youtube channel of the lectures and media:<\/p>\n
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\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLlRFEj9H3Oj6-srSAgLb-ZGVNGlo3v14X
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\nI even turned this all into a textbook on the basics of the Internet that I wrote for a Khan Academy high school course course on TCP\/IP. I finished the book but never built the Khan Academy course.<\/p>\n