Kris' refs preparing for Story Slam 03Dec2023

Upd 21Feb2024; Refs supporting my Story. This URL https://stewart.sdsu.edu/0Inet-PersonalHistory/refs.html

Fei Liu Pratt started up a "Story Slam". I believe this started with Fei attending an event at our county library - here's a write up I found in the FOEL, Friends of Encinitas Library, email - Attached is our newest e-newsletter. It will soon be posted on our website on the lower right side of the "About" page. FOEL web page; 22Oct2023 Poster by Fei 

Once again, The Library will be partnering with Marilyn McPhie, President of Storytellers of San Diego, to
host a workshop on Saturday, October 7 from 10 am to 12 pm in the community room. This will be a pilot
program, and it will be evaluated for possible follow-up workshops. Professional storytellers will expertly
guide participants through the creative process with storytelling resources and strategies.
You should ask Fei more about how she envisages this continuing program, but she has an email list that she send out announcements with. Please contact her using fei-liu.pratt@gmail.com

Since I've been a geek my whole life, I felt the topic Glen suggested about telling what I have seen in the growth of the Internet would be a interesting topic. Since I'm a 11 years retired CS, computer science, Professor from SDSU, San Diego State University, and worked with SDSC, San Diego Supercomputer Center, nearly from when they started 1985, this could be a long story. Fei asks us to aim for 5 minutes, and my presentation last Sunday went over that limit - there was no clock in the room or warning system, as used in professional conferences - so hope it was only 15min.

I've had my own web page since Jan 1994, so am comfortable with the web - its garbage, and its goodies - I started with the handout I shared with my SDSU students the first day in the lab - https://stewart.sdsu.edu/infolab/
This was from Fall 2011, so hope it is fairly current. It's a challenge to keep links up to date for a web developer, so please be kind. Timeline of Tech Upd 21Feb2024

At SDSU, our CS students were born digital and I am analog. I felt obligated to schedule use of one of the campus labs for my entire class. I would distribute their computer account - login name and password - for campus computer they would be required to use for class assignments. This way I could make sure everyone logged in and also gave me a chance to make some points about responsible computer use. SDSU registered student were given an email on rohan.sdsu.edu until 05June2017, when that mainframe was retired.
My main pitch was recognizing that information overload is a part of life in the 21st century.

INFO-OVERLOAD - How can a person find out about the availability of information on a particular topic? How do you access that information? Do you read the information right now, or store it to be read later? If you store the data, how will you categorize it so that it can be retrieved later? What are the various "kinds" of information? (different for each person)

Just because you "read it in the newspaper", does this make it true? (maybe, depends on the author [editor] and on the newspaper [IP name])
Most material available on the Internet is not "peer-reviewed" which implies there is no guarantee that the information is correct or valuable or worthwhile.
Recall from journalism the 5 W's: 

Who	(Who first told you about the resource?)
What	(What access mechanism: anonymous ftp, WWW, gopher, ...)
Where	(Location is an IP address)
When	(The dynamic nature of the Internet adds a "temporal" quality to information)
Why	(Why did you think this link was worth saving? Why is this sourceinteresting?)

I also re-read the "Core Rules of Netiquete" extensive notes and discussions by Virginia Shea, Albion Books, San Francisco info@albion.com

What references, online if possible, should I rely on as I prepare this 'story'? Well, there's always Wikipedia, which is often useful, but it is editted by anyone who wants and is not "gospel". I feel most usefull is CHS, Computer History Museum 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View CA 94043 610.810.1010.

Where to start on this vast topic? I found lots of information, lots of programs, lots of great stuff, but hope to approach it all?
Timeline - https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/. There are 2 choices - By Year: 1930s, 1940s, ..., 2000s, 2010s; or by Category

Category

Another book I purchased the Kindle version of several years ago, provides lots of trustable details - How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough, Oct 2018. The link is to Brian's hour long talk at Google. I think it will give you an excellent introduction to the book and to Brian's credentials, i.e. why you should believe what he says and writes. 
Brian McCullough   1:00:54

How the Internet Happened | Brian McCullough | Talks at Google

Talks at Google

Brian McCullough is the host of the Techmeme Ride Home podcast discusses his book 
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone, which details the rise of the 
commercial web from a bunch of college students in Illinois to the dawn of the 
mobile economy. 

Brian McCullough, in How The Internet Happened, is the first author to comprehensively 
look at the rise of the Internet from its commercial beginnings in the 1990s. Based 
on interviews with many of the key players along with extensive research, the book 
combines human, technical, and business perspectives to put the revolution into context.

Get the book here: https://goo.gl/BTqvPb"

After the talk, things I didn't get to say
I wish I talked about Steve Jobs annoucing the iPhone, 09Jan2007, at Macworld. Also wish I mentioned the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony and "Thanks Tim". Finish with we have ting providing fiber to our home and I remember discussions decades ago about fiber. I never thought it would happen in my lifetime.

1986-2016 HuffPost - 3 Decades of Making Impossible Research Possible pdf
A highlight of accomplishments cited in this article are - nice rotating slides of 1969 Arpanet, 1977 ARPAnet, 1988 NSFnet Backbone, 1995 NSFnet T3 Backbone, 2007 Internet Map; 1992 SDSC launchers Supercomputer Teacher Enhancement Program (STEP); 1993 NCSA Mosaic released - world's first freely available Web browser; 1995 Tsutomo Shimomura & SDSC Researchers collaborate with FBI to track down Kevin Mitnick; 1997 PACI; 2004 most detailed simulation of impact of major earthquake on southern San Andreas Fault; 2016 "XSEDE resources from TACC and SDSC help confirm discovery of gravitational waves by Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors."

CENIC 20 Years of Connecting California pdf pointing out 1995 NSFnet ends
I especially liked the article by Stuart Lynn on the founding of CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California)
"There were networks in California before CENIC was founded; the idea of a network wasn't new. What was new in 1997, however, was the size, the scope, and the collaboration necessary to achieve what became CENIC.
As the state that was arguably home to the people who created the Internet in the first place, California had many scientists, faculty, and computer engineers building connections with their colleagues and peers at neighboring institutions. Fueled by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), these early networks were focused in tight geographic regions.
In the Bay Area, BARRNet - the Bay Area Regional Research Network - connected four University of California campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco), Stanford University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the NASA Ames Research Center. CERFNet originated at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and provided additional connectivity to UCLA, Caltech, and the University of California, Irvine. And in the Los Angeles region, Los Nettos connected the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Southern California and its Information Sciences Institute, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Each of these networks was a powerful player in its region, in large part because of the prominence of the institutions.
"I thought we should talk to each other," said Russ Hobby, from the University of California, Davis. "So I formed the California Internet Federation to get people together to consider how all of these networks needed to connect."
Although the federation members met quarterly for close to five years, sharing solutions to issues such as routing concerns, while NSFNet was in place there was never a move to fully integrate the networks statewide. Outside of the federation, the California State University system had CSUNet, an expansive network that efectively connected its campuses across the state.
That landscape in 1995 changed with the NSF's decision to decommission its backbone service and transition to a different architecture, one dependent on commercial services for connectivity."

I watched two great movies -
- Takedown, about Tsutomo Shimomura helping the FBI capture Black Hat Hacker Kevin Mitnick on Valentines Day 1995. I was at meetings at SDSC after this occurred and was able to spot Tsutomo, playing himself kinda, at some of the planning meetings.
- Tetris, on Apple+. Wikipedia has - "Tetris is a 2023 biographical thriller film based on true events around the race to license and patent the video game Tetris from Russia in the late 1980s during the Cold War. It was directed by Jon S. Baird and written by Noah Pink. The film stars Taron Egerton, Nikita Efremov, Sofia Lebedeva, and Anthony Boyle. Tetris premiered at the SXSW Film Festival on March 15, 2023, and was released on March 31, by Apple TV+. The film received generally positive reviews from critics."

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