Internet History
from my viewpoint

What Internet 2 Means for SDSU Faculty - 20June2004

I was asked to explain why high-speed networking is important to SDSU - Provost Marlin Countil of Deans presentation - as Director of NPACI Ed Center on Computational Science & Engineering and co-PI on NSF grant that was awarded to CSU/SDSU to provide our campus DS-3 access to the California statewide network and then to the vBNS. I am also working to recreate, for historic sense, the home page of the EC/CSE. NPACI Ed Center

Internet Scout

scout.wisc.edu The Internet Scout has a "long-time" legacy of examining the Internet. SDSC's Supercomputer and Teacher Enhancement Program (1993-96) had guest presentation from Susan Calcari, Info Scout. Their archives 1994-2022 present a fascinating timeline of the online world.

Poster SC97

The SC97, Supercomputing 1997 Annual Conference, made available a fascinating poster depicting the people and events that characterized the history of the Internet 1962-92. Fascinating discussion of SCinet, the network resource created each year for the SC, SuperComputing, conference is SCinet: 25 Years of Extreme Networking (340KB PDF)" local copy by Linda Winkler, Argonne National Laboratory. I had the SC'97 Poster framed and find a smile on my face when I look at the details. What's your point of view?

WABAC Machine, The Internet Archive, founded by Brewster Kahle

How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough

Fascinating book by Brian McCullough, based on his decades of work in the Internet industry, copyright 2018. It's useful when one person takes on the task to research and writeup this sort of history - Netscape (1994) to iPhone (2007) and more. chapters

1979 Linpack License plate

30 March 2022, the ACM announced that Jack Dongarra was awarded the Turing Award. One of the pictures included in the announcements was this historic picture from 1979 of Jack Dongarra's Pinto, a New Mexico plate, "Land of Enchantement", and features young Jack Dongarra, Cleve Moler, Pete Stewart, and Jim Bunch. Jack presented the Turing Lecture at SC22, available on YouTube, as well ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture.
"Jack Dongarra, Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee, Appointments with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Manchester;
Join us for the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture featuring Jack Dongarra. A longtime SC supporter, Jack's pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled HPC software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for over four decades has, through the years, accelerated HPC. With our SC22 conference theme, HPC Accelerates, we're honored that Jack selected SC22 as the location to present his award lecture."