Well, not really, but still pretty cool is this old recording from Stanford. This isn't quite the internet as we know it, but it's the first public announcement of a number of technologies that birthed what I'm using right now to type, upload and publish this blog to you. Some highlights are
Clip 11 - Doug talks about why an online system is useful.. I can't think of any reasons..
Clip 12 - The introduction of the Mouse and his pointer friend 'bug'
Clip 15 - The hardware running the NLS and generating the performance for the audience. This isn't quite the dawn of personal computers... that comes in the mid-80s.
Clip 25 - Two mouse pointers collaborating, reminds me of the recent mouse demo of node.js
Clip 30 - Doug describes two systems being used. One - the hardware system that runs everything - and two - the logical system that is used to organize and relate data in human terms.
The NLS online system project at Stanford
Big thanks to @d33rheart who came across this gem in her digital art class and saw instantly that it was in my taste.
