Tack Fredrik Hallberg från Bright Media för en spännande dragning kring ”Det nya medialandskapet” förra veckan. (Jag kommer att återkomma till Hallbergs tankar i framtida inlägg).
Fredrik introducerade mig i alla fall till Paul Baran´s tidiga tankar kring internet (1964). Coolt!
Bild. 1) Centralized Networks, 2) Decentralized Networks, 3) Distibuted Networks.
“….Paul Baran was working on a classified U.S. Air Force contract, whose purpose was to identify ways to strengthen the Nation’s telecommunication infrastructure so that it could survive a nuclear strike. Part of his solution was to develop distributed telecommunication networks. If information was truly distributed, instead of everything flowing into and out of central points, then a network could still work effectively even if some legs of the network were damaged or removed. Implementing such a distributed network involved a technique called packet switching….” (citat).
Bilden ovan inspirerade mig att söka vidare i historien….
History of the internet in 5 minutes
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