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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
NSF and the Birth of the Internet
The birth of the Internet is the subject of this utterly engaging and well-thought out special report created by the National Science Foundation. Aftera brief introduction, visitors can browse through a multimedia site that includes video clips of early pioneers talking about their work on this endeavor, along with maps of Internet growth from the 1960s to the 1990s and documents such as the Lax Report. Interestingly enough the Lax Report, issued in 1982, was influential in the creation of the National ScienceFoundation's supercomputing centers. The materials are divided up by decade(1960s through the 2000s) and visitors can click on each section to learn about the advances and challenges faced by persons working in this field. Along the way, a small section in the bottom right-hand corner of the site keeps a running total of the baud rate and the Internet users in each decade. Of course, visitors will not want to miss the section dedicated to Mosaic, which was the browser developed at the National Center forSupercomputing Applications in the early 1990s. From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2008. http://scout.wisc.edu/
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