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Google Tech Talks October, 23 2007 ABSTRACT For 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 Wright Alex 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/

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Uploaded: October 26, 2007 at 9:12 am
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Length: 59:34
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boxa888 (September 6, 2008 at 1:19 am)
yes his equation was velocity = 300,000 * cosecant (_ degrees) 1 degree from the tower is like 80,000,000,000 km/sec! going to 90 degrees(equator) the energy hits the speed of light, once it goes pasrt the equator it speeds up to faster than light speeds. its all to do with the sherical nature of the earth! its incredible this was 100 yrs ago and the internet was going to be so fast and perfect. i put up information on his system if your interested, he was the first to make the internet!
stedman341 (September 5, 2008 at 5:40 pm)
faster than light speeds, amazing!
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boxa888 (August 27, 2008 at 5:26 pm)
everyone forgets the first internet. nikola tesla made a internet 100 years ago, with cell phone devices, it was to do the same things as our internet of today does. the data was sent through the earth at faster than lights speeds, also industrial energy could be sent as well. the first commercial tower was wardenclyffe, his reseach was done at colorado springs. its a very important part of internet history, please reseach,i put up sonme basic info if your interested. thank you!!
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beancube2008 (August 1, 2008 at 8:02 am)
How come this kind of engineering work developed into something that common human beings cannot be able to understand information they were distributed, like unreadable hydro bills? Is it a bug in the logic?
BiffChunksteak (July 21, 2008 at 5:55 pm)
Classification and controlled vocabularies are not forgotten. Not by library information science, anyway. You see, us librarians, we tend to hold on to things just a little bit longer than your average software developper. Even the really old and uncool stuff doesn't get the boot as long as we can imagine any decent future use for it. You know, 'in case shit'.
provendelusion (June 18, 2008 at 7:53 pm)
Check out Paul Otlet's video... pretty cool. pretty ancient... and still possible.
josuecamper (February 20, 2008 at 7:30 am)
Great, great, thanks for sharing this information. Thanks to Tim Berners Lee for creating the WEB.
rudyiking (December 6, 2007 at 9:50 am)
Man, I want a microfiche web!!! Thanks for sharing, very very intresting!

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