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Google Tech TalksOctober, 23 2007ABSTRACTFor most of us who work on the Internet, the Web is all we have ever really known. It's almost impossible to imagine a world without browsers, URLs and HTTP. But in the years leading up to Tim Berners-Lee's world-changing invention, a few visionary information scientists were exploring alternative systems that often bore little resemblance to the Web as we know it today. In this presentation, author and information architect Alex Wright will explore the heritage of these almost-forgotten systems in search of promising ideas left by the historical wayside.The presentation will focus on the pioneering work of Paul Otlet, Vannevar Bush, and Doug Engelbart, forebears of the 1960s and 1970s like Ted Nelson, Andries van Dam, and the Xerox PARC team, and more recent forays like Brown's Intermedia system. We'll trace the heritage of these systems and the solutions they suggest to present day Web quandaries, in hopes of finding clues to the future in the recent technological past.Speaker: Alex WrightAlex Wright is an information architect at the New York Times and the author of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages. Previously, Alex has led projects for The Long Now Foundation, California Digital Library, Harvard University, IBM, Microsoft, Rollyo and Sun Microsystems, among others. He maintains a personal Web site at http://www.alexwright.org/

Channel: People & Blogs
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: googletechtalks

Length: 59:34
Rating: 4.74
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seobro (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I still remember PLATO in college. It was a method of creating computer content back in the 70's before the internet.
nicegurl112 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
anyway, tick tock tick tock, i want some johnson.
Valetudo21 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
great talk. VERY interesting!
F00dTube (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Yea! And did you know that the wtc towers fell faster than free fall?
vaundawg (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
boxa, tesla was opposed to einsteins theory of relativity and was obsessed with refuting it. he refused to acnowledge even that space might be curved - something we observe frequently now and even rely on to determine the locations of distant heavenly bodies. his theory of how something could move faster than light has been disproven several times over. it's pseudoscience. sorry.
boxa888 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
why have i proven his one wire transmission in my basement, its not properly tuned but shows the principle very well. this same principle leads to the faster than light speeds and energy transfer through the earth. well whatever, believe what you want, every one has an opinion, and everyone can have the ability to find what is reality. one wire transmission is included in it! pce
vaundawg (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I have researched it. Tesla was a charlatan. He was a fraud. None of his 'devices' actually worked; he was a pioneer into electronics but was quickly overshadowed by people with devices that actually worked. His imagination ran away with him and he forgot about real invention - he just started making shit up.There are designs out there for lots of 'flying machines' in the 1800s, too. And guess what? Only one of them really worked. Imagination is great, but results matter. Tesla didn't get any.
boxa888 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
but it is the first. tesla states around 1890-95 his wireless system will send power, voice, pictures,moving pictures, writing,exchange ideas, business information to all points(yes thats the internet). he also states cell phone devices as small as watches that could be used to talk to other people on the planet, his cell phones didnt need charging either lol. you have to reseach it before you say anything!
vaundawg (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
what boxa888 says is not true. ignore him

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