And Lo, There Was ARPANET (Baby Internet!)

Show Notes

How did the Internet first begin? Why was it developed at the Advanced Research Projects Agency? Where was it initially launched at the end of the 1960s? Is it pronounced r-OO-ter or r-OW-ter?? These and other hard-hitting questions are answered as Jared & Ayush take a deep dive into the birth of humanity’s global computer network…with a dash of 90s nostalgia thrown in for good measure.

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

Links & Show Notes:

• Follow Just a Spec on Mastodon
• The Spicy Web & That HTML Blog
• Episode 15: The Plumbing That Makes the Web Move
• Packet switching (Wikipedia)
• The first Internet connection, with UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock (YouTube)
• How the Internet Was Invented: Part 1 (YouTube)
• How the Internet Came to Be | Part 2 (YouTube)
• Did the U.S. Government Invent the Internet? | History (YouTube)
• How the Internet was born: The network begins to take shape (The Conversation)
• The Internet Review (born in 1996, reborn in 2024)
• 1989 Networking Poems!

What is Just a Spec?

A podcast about the protocols, the projects, and the people who make the open platform of the Internet possible.