The internet in 1969

[Ziggystrange]

1. Pretty cool

That is a good trip but the hardware was not doing it, it was canned.

Have you heard of "The Demo" that was in 68

On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was a session of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1,000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface.

They have the individual segments, and the100 minute video at this link
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html

Best

Ziggy