Journalism - Room LA 212 7:30 to 8:30 – Guest Lecture Notes – The Internet

 

HISTORY

 

MOTIVATION: The first motivating factor to start work on what led to the Internet was the launch of Sputnik in the Soviet Union.

 

1ST STEP:       Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as ARPA, in February 1958.

 

ARPANET - interconnected between UCLA and SRI International in Menlo Park, California, on October 29, 1969

 

"LICK": J. C. R. Licklider – Idea man behind the notions of the Internet – NOT Gore – (read about the misrepresentations of the press). Actually, Vint Cerf – "Father of the Internet" – Gore said, "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." in regards to legislation he supported. See ICANN link for some irony in the current video they are running.

 

GOES INTERNATIONAL: 1978. The collection of X.25-based networks grew from Europe and the US to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981

 

IP: The first TCP/IP-wide area network was made operational by January 1, 1983

 

MCI Mail system in that year and the link was made in the summer of 1989. Other commercial electronic email services were soon connected, including OnTyme, Telemail and Compuserve

 

Email on networks were happening before the InternetÉ

 

August 6, 1991, CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland, publicized the new World Wide Web project, two years after British scientist Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP and the first few Web pages at CERN.

 

web browser was ViolaWWW replaced in popularity by the Mosaic web browser. In 1993

 

Microsoft – Internet Explorer is used to keep everyone on Microsoft products.

 

WWW (dub, dub, dub) just a part of the Internet.

 

NOW: 1.244 billion people use the Internet

 

DOMAINS: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

 

SYNTAX ARGUMENT: Internet vs. the internet

 

ME: My Internet History

       Chat – CompuServe $6.25 per hour :  CompuSex – a NEW term : AOL – the other service provider

       Helping other do: Email, Search (Gofer), FTP, Web, Computer Sales, FreePPP (Dial-up), DSLÉ

       Domain Names – the business : My best sale was for $10,000 + secondary revenue for globaldirect.com.

 

Domain Name Systems (DNS) introduced

1985 - Symbolics.com is the first registered domain in history

1985 - Earliest domains to be registered

$15,000 tv.com, business.com 7 million, 12 million (sex.com)

I send about 8000-9000 emails a year. Work, Photos, Politics, Phone messages : Email is a hub for everything I do.

Bills, not just paid, but received online : http://www.paytrust.com

 

My company: http://www.natann.com

 

The metamorphosis from egg head sharing info to society changing

 

       The Google (President Bush being "out of touch" due to lack of Internet experience

–     give me 15 seconds to find anything about anything.

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 MySpace – people network, YouTube – these are tiny stepping stones to a larger intergration of constant connectivity to come.

 

My take on journalism and the net - the good, the bad, and the stupidÉ

       Journalism – EVERYBODY CAN PUBLISH and nobody has to read it. A stupid contest vs. endless rich sources of accurate information.

 

Hoaxes.

Snopes.com – go HERE before forwarding any baloney. Check 3 sources and think before accepting anything as true.

 

The blurring of professional and amateur will continueÉ. Credibility will be shaken up and new methods and new players will be established as mainstream media races for dollars through tabloidism desperately keeping viewers with fewer and fewer dollars spent and new voices establish a following on the Net.

 

FUTURE: The drama of future change and my guess as to where we are headed (no compass allowed)

The "net" is with you wherever you go. All media is over the net. No physical purchases of content – movie, software, music, newspapers, business contractsÉ

 

 

Everything before now may be seen in the future as the modern "dark ages" due to the fact, only now are we saving indefinately, every photo of very moment, video of every moment, all media and data, all saved digitally whereas there is no loss over time. Your grandmother might have a photo or two, but she does not have everything she's ever written, her to do lists, her baby pictures of every milestone, her favorite movies from when she was 12 all saved forever, assuming no one deletes the only copy. ;-)

 

A new skill for people is required to FILTER the sea of information availableÉ. It now requires more skill and effort to decipher truth from fiction.

 

         ~ Nathan James – nate@natann.com