internet

initial conception

Section titled “initial conception”
  • Earliest incarnations in 85 were basic peer-to-peer protocols: Gopher, finger, telnet, FTP, SMTP
  • HTTP and World Wide Web at CERN, Tim Berners Lee
  • Network of networks designed to survive a nuclear attack
  • Initially military technology, funded by US military, gov and civilian funding
    • how power ideologies determine innovation
  • Designed to be recoverable through rerouting around damage

development

Section titled “development”
  • Early Internet, sharing songs, causing almost complete collapse of music industry, who attacked the networks
  • From 2011 first huge spread of nationwide political messaging from people on the ground with the April uprising, Egypt president attempted to cut it off

beyond infrastructure

Section titled “beyond infrastructure”