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Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing is a short documentary film from 1972, produced by Steven King and directed/edited by Peter Chvany, about ARPANET, an early packet-switching network and one of the first networks to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP.

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The 30 minute film features many of the most important names in computer networking, especially J. C. R. Licklider and others from MIT's Project MAC who had connected a computer to ARPANET the year before.[1] According to a history of computing equipment by Columbia University it "begins with a montage of equipment ... and then has interviews with ARPANET creators."[2] The film discusses "the potential that this network has for revolutionizing so many industries and institutions".[3] Bob Kahn presents concepts originally published by Donald Davies at the inaugural Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, which were being implemented in the ARPANET.[4][5][6]

Participants

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Speaking parts:

Non-speaking:

  • Daniel L. Murphy: (Behind the titles, several other times including about 15:44)

Unidentified:

  • (8:27-8:32, with beard and glasses): previously misidentified as Jon Postel

Reception

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Cory Doctorow called the documentary a "fantastic 30 minutes of paleo-nerd memorabilia".[9] Matt Novak of Gizmodo said "When you hear a man like J.C.R. Licklider describe the information age before it had even begun to trickle into the public consciousness, we understand how forward-thinking these people developing the ARPANET in the late 1960s and early 1970s truly were."[3] Mark Liberman described it as "amazing".[8]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Multics History". multicians.org. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  2. ^ da Cruz, Frank. "Films Depicting Vintage Computing Equipment in Action". Columbia University Computing History. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  3. ^ a b Novak, Matt (July 23, 2013). "Internet Pioneers Discuss the Future of Money, Books, and Paper in 1972". Paleofuture. Gizmodo.
  4. ^ Davies, Donald; Bartlett, Keith; Scantlebury, Roger; Wilkinson, Peter (October 1967). A Digital Communication Network for Computers Giving Rapid Response at remote Terminals (PDF). ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-10. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  5. ^ Abbate, Jane (2000). Inventing the Internet. MIT Press. p. 38. ISBN 0262261332. The NPL group influenced a number of American computer scientists in favor of the new technique, and they adopted Davies's term "packet switching" to refer to this type of network. Roberts also adopted some specific aspects of the NPL design.
  6. ^ Yates, David M. (1997). Turing's Legacy: A History of Computing at the National Physical Laboratory 1945-1995. National Museum of Science and Industry. pp. 132–34. ISBN 978-0-901805-94-2. Davies's invention of packet switching and design of computer communication networks ... were a cornerstone of the development which led to the Internet
  7. ^ Eckardt, Frank (1 January 2008). Media and Urban Space: Understanding, Investigating and Approaching Mediacity. Frank & Timme GmbH. ISBN 9783865961426. Retrieved 30 October 2016 – via Google Books. ISBN 3-86596-142-8
  8. ^ a b Liberman, Mark (March 19, 2006). "Heralds of Resource Sharing". Language Log.
  9. ^ Doctorow, Cory (March 18, 2006). "Documentary on the state of the Internet in 1972". Boing Boing.
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