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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2003-03-13 10:20 am
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McGuirk asked the class to come up with some historical context for the internet timeline. What happened in the 60's?

According to the guy behind me, the hippies landed on the moon. Or at least thought they did...
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[identity profile] metaphorge.livejournal.com 2003-03-13 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
It all started with Vannevar Bush....
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2003-03-13 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
/me is clueless regarding the reference

[identity profile] metaphorge.livejournal.com 2003-03-13 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
Bush's As We May Think article published in 1945 is often regarded as what "started" the lines of thinking that led to the 'net.
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2003-03-13 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, thaaaaank you. Demland is telling us to read everything. So... read I shall.

[identity profile] dragontdc.livejournal.com 2003-03-13 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
And of course DARPA and ARPANet
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2003-03-13 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep.

She was lecturing about all these, but wanted us to name some other things that were happening in the world.

[identity profile] dragontdc.livejournal.com 2003-03-13 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Cold War, Viet Nam, British Invasion, Psychedelics, Flower Power, Hippies, Hot Rods, Hair, Disney Animated Features, Spaghetti Westerns, The Space Race, LBJ, the Congo War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Born Free, Batfink, everything a-go-go, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Hot Pants, Star Trek
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2003-03-13 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Lots of things.
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