<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><b>** ISOC.LIVE is free community webcasting support service sponsored by the the Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) - Big thanks to our May 2024 funder Vint Cerf **</b><br></div><div><br></div><div>50 years ago this week, in May 1974, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn published their paper '<a href="https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos561/papers/cerf74.pdf"><b>A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication</b></a>' which launched IP/TCP, thus pretty much kickstarting the Internet.<br><br></div><div>We may see a lot of celebratory media over the coming weeks. I am taking the opportunity to plumb the ISOC LIVE archive for some historical material, starting with this talk, at Harvard in 2019, by Scott Bradner. Note that it is titled 'A history of the Internet' with an accent on the 'A', as there are many histories.<br><br>This is a fresh edit and transcription.<br><br>Scott Bradner himself, this week, has a fresh book out '<a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/forks-in-the-digital-road-9780197617779"><b>Forks in the Digital Road</b></a>' (Oxford University Press), a reading of which would very much flesh out the content of this presentation.<br><br></div><div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD" style="width:748px;background:rgb(221,221,221)"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="width:728px;padding:10px"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0px auto;overflow:hidden"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width:600px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0px auto"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="8" style="width:600px;background-image:url("https://s0.wp.com/i/emails/stripes.gif");background-repeat:repeat-x;background-color:rgb(67,164,208);height:8px"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table><br><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width:600px"><tbody><tr><td><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:13px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/scottbradner" style="color:rgb(213,78,33);text-decoration-line:none;border-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(187,187,187)"><img class="gmail-alignright gmail-size-medium gmail-wp-image-10983" src="https://i0.wp.com/isoc.live/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/scott_bradner_history_of_the_internet2.png?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1" alt="livestream" width="300" height="169" style="height: auto; max-width: 98%; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); float: right; padding: 2px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 7px; display: block; clear: none; vertical-align: top;"></a><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bradner" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">Scott Bradner</a></strong> presentation ‘<strong><a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2019-02-05/history-internet" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">A History of the Internet</a></strong>‘ at the <strong><a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">Berkman Klein Center</a></strong> in Boston, on <strong>February 5 2019</strong>. A veteran of ARPANET and the IETF, among Scott Bradner’s many roles are Internet Society Trustee from 1993 to 1996 and secretary of the Board of Trustees from 2003 to 2016.</p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:13px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">This talk provides a history of the reasons for and the technology of the Internet. It also presents some of the reasons that the Internet has had such an impact and some of the challenges that may cause the Internet of tomorrow to be significantly less revolutionary than the Internet to date.</p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:13px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"></p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:13px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong><a href="https://archive.org/details/scott_bradner_history_of_the_internet" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">VIDEO</a> | <a href="https://archive.org/download/scott_bradner_history_of_the_internet/scott_bradner_history_of_the_internet.mp3" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">AUDIO</a> | <a href="https://archive.org/download/scott_bradner_history_of_the_internet/scott_bradner_history_of_the_internet_TRANSCRIPT.pdf" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">TRANSCRIPT </a></strong>| <strong><a href="https://archive.org/download/scott_bradner_history_of_the_internet/scott_bradner_history_of_the_internet_SLIDES.pdf" style="color:rgb(52,120,227);text-decoration-line:none">SLIDES</a> </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#efefef" style="width:600px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239);border-top:1px solid rgb(221,221,221)"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-top:1px solid rgb(243,243,243);color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:14px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><p style="direction:ltr;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;margin:0px"><strong><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Permalink</span></strong><br><a href="https://isoc.live/10981/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)">https://isoc.live/10981/</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="3" style="width:600px;background-image:url("https://s0.wp.com/i/emails/stripes.gif");background-repeat:repeat-x;background-color:rgb(67,164,208);height:3px"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br></td></tr></tbody></table><img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?blog=151329629&post=10981&subd=isoc.live&ref=&email=1&email_o=jetpack&host=jetpack.wordpress.com" width="1" height="1" class="gmail-CToWUd"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/t.gif?email_name=email_subscription&blog_id=151329629&_ui=2239291&email_id=a5b5dee5ecc0279abc8ec4f1ac91a587&date_sent=2019-03-18&domain=isoc.live&frequency=0&digest=0&has_html=1&locale=en&_en=wpcom_email_open&browser_type=php-agent&_aua=wpcom-tracks-client-v0.3&_ul=wwwhatsup1&_ut=wpcom%3Auser_id&blog_tz=-4&blog_lang=0&user_lang=en&_ts=1552908571791" width="1" height="1" class="gmail-CToWUd"><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"><span class="gmail_default"></span></div></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>-</div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>--------------------------------------<br>Joly MacFie  +1<span title="Call with Google Voice">2185659365</span> </div><div>--------------------------------------</div>-</div></div></div></div></div></div>