People mocked Al Gore for his comment, but look at how tough it is to pass any meaningful legislation that betters public education and libraries today. He deserves kudos
If I remember correctly, Firefox was not a rebranding of Netscape. Rather, it was an different browser made by Netscape employees who left the company to start Mozilla. Great video, learned something new!
Mozilla Suite (including and email client and browser) was released after the Netscape code was open sourced. Firefox was not originally made by the Mozilla Foundation. It was a private code fork of Mozilla intended to be much faster and less bloated. I started using it when it was called Phoenix browser. This was then changed to Firebird and finally Firefox. It attracted users at such a speed that eventually Mozilla Foundation adopted it.
As someone who was born in 1971. It's been interesting to experience the real time development of the INTERNET. From not really understanding or appreciating the potential, to fascination, slow integration, access to endless amounts of knowledge, the promise of a united world, and now the destruction of individual liberties and lives. 😢
I was born in 1970, i remember being in a pub talking to a friend who was really into computers and asking him what the internet was. I'd had a computer (Sinclair Spectrum) for years but i kept hearing people talking about the internet and couldn't work out what it was for, lol.
Simplified yet true to its original history. Well scripted and paced. Video editing is good too. I'm going to share this to a bunch of my peers! Keep going.
This is one of my favorite real life history stories, as someone who grew up on the internet it's always been so fascinating to me, although I'd admit that fascination has died in the last decade. Because of that it's always great as well to hear it again, and you did a great job as per usual in both your coverage and editing that I feel like I could share to people since it's not heavy into the complicated details. Thanks NationSquid.
I feel the same. As a 90s kid, I have memories of being so fascinated, and stimulated, by the influx of information and images/video made available. I learned html and css coding because I was obsessed with making websites just for the sake of it. Not so much nowadays, but it's been amazing to gain more insight on the internet phenomenon
@@Disco4ia It's definitely had a lot of impact on my interests as well, I started out just messing with HTML and CSS but it evolved into my love for personal computing and technology in general. I'll be getting my associates in a comp sci course and plan on working for other certifications as well in the next coming years.
The reason the internet isnt interesting anymore is that is there isnt any more innovation because we have a system that works as well as it will ever get
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@@Trollleben i mean consider that we did programming, only high school cared about the history of it itself, the teaching was good, they just thought it was not important to mention the origin itself but just how it works and what to make on it in uni, in high school a little bit of mention but just a few times just for curiosity
I wish we had a president who was capable of that. Instead we have an entire government of 80 year olds who dont even use the internet. Especially not our last two presidents lol
What an amazing documentary. I'm a technology engineer student and this stuff fascinates me. Also my monke brain thinks, internet is just phones 2.0. crazy to think how much information the CIA and other governments sent 'over the wire' and then later how much of a huge backend the actual internet has
Hahaha, leave it to beaver is so great!! This was an interesting video, as I always thought it was Tim Berners Lee. Thanks for enlightening me on the origins of the Internet! Again, great video as always, you just keep outdoing yourself!! I love that you have a turntable as well, I never knew you were into records!
@@NightCloudI nothing wrong with the comment, it's an obvious joke. As another introvert, I do get annoyed when people say the Internet made us isolated. No it hasn't. I've met most of my closest friends on the Internet.
@@mirzaahmed6589 Ikr, and for us introverts internet is a great way to spend fun time with a friend. We can watch videos and discuss or theorize about it after or we can play some online games. :)
Awesome content as usual man! This taught me SO much about the internet and your voice and style of narration and editing is super engaging and mesmerizing, along with the little jokes you throw in throughout your videos! You’re my favorite channel and I’m glad you’ve been uploading more lately :)
Had “great gig in the sky” stuck in my head for the rest of the video after it played and it honestly kinda gave me some deep existential feelings, just thinking about how much technology has evolved in such a relatively small amount of time. Great video
This has to be one of your best videos yet! I have kind of dug into this topic in the past but really came out more confused. Growing up I didn't really question what internet was or how it came to be. Actually funny enough I remember when we got our first pc we referred to it as "the internet." We didn't use it for much else at the time.
Amazing at the time, in 1995 we planned an entire 3-week trip, using MapQuest, online hotel reservations, and message boards. We even advance purchased tickets for a Cinema show in Dayton, OH. Nowdays thats the norm, but some of this tech was brand new and amazed people. As a side note, everything went flawlessly.
Incredible video. Super ambitious but covers so many important developments clearly and succinctly. So far the video hasn't performed near as well as the others on your channel, but I wouldn't be surprised if it consistently gets views over a long period of time. It deserves that for sure.
18:46 internet service providers (ISP) did not charge long distance fees for accessing websites on the other side of the world. The video says that with a world spanning network, charging people long distance became a turn-off because you couldn't tell where a server was and would suddenly be hit with long distance charges until AOL came around and offered a fixed monthly fee. That's not what I recall at all. What I recall is that we were charged per minute of connection. This sounds like long distance charges, but is not. You were simply charged whenever you were connected, even if you weren't downloading anything but preparing and email to be sent. And eventually it moved to a fixed rate for unlimited access. I think the script took what we all know of long distance charges now (and then), and got confused when they heard of pay by the minute charges and wild internet bills. But it had nothing to do with the location of the server. Only your connection time. I did a quick search and couldn't find anything like that. If anyone can confirm that any ISPs ever did this, that would be great. I certainly don't recall ever hearing this when I had dial-up internet in the 90s as a teen, but I do recall the unlimited use being a promotional point for ISPs.
What I got from the sentence is what other people (general public) assumed and didn't understand - as they were used to only how phones work. You tell somebody in 1991 that you can "use your phone to connect to somebody across the world", they would assume you would be charged for long distance. When AOL came in with its massive marketing campaign, they took advantage of this confusion, but also improved the billing system to be cheaper (assuming you use it enough) and easily understood. I have faint memories of the early days of AOL (as in, I remember a time before people got AOL despite it being around at the time). My family was already using AOL and had been long before anybody else I knew (my dad used to code games and programmes so he was tech savvy at the time). I remember that we'd call my aunt in the evenings after a specific time because it was cheaper due to the package we had. One of my friends had only DOS on her family's computer for a long time and no internet. Another who was more well off got AOL before others. I do remember adult discussions of how it worked / how it charged etc - just like how I know it was cheaper to call my aunt after a specific time. I was very young at the time so I can't recall much other than the vague understanding that most people didn't understand the billing system outside of AOL. I suppose it's like using data on pay-as-you go and being charged so much per X MB of data. You just have no concept of how much it will charge you until you check your balance (or in their case, the monthly phone bill) I also remember the big ass beige boxes in the darkest corner of pubs where you'd put in a £2 coin to use it for 10 minutes lol
The high bill came from the fact that they charged you for usage by the hour but eventually went to an unlimited plan. The only long distance charge may have been if you used a local access number from a different location. Also Service providers such as AOL and Compuserve didn't originally provide internet service, they provided a connection to their private network. They also didn't use a web browser, they used proprietary software.
As a network engineer, all of this is my bread and butter. The simplicity and in depthness of your explanations is amazing! I got giddy when you mentioned STP! This is an amazing video
I enjoy your every videos, they give me enjoyment and education at the same time. By the way, I ended up getting the joke, because it was dropped off safely by the mailman. keep creating man, you are one of the few who gives me the old feeling of the simpler times
Just so you lnow Al Gore never ever once said that he invented the internet. He said exactly "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." By that he meant legislation for the internet. Which is 100 percent true.
Hedi Lamar was a brilliant engineer, but didn't invented CDMA or WiFi. She invented what was called frequency hopping communication. The patent specifies using it to control torpedoes or drones (I really can't remember). This was used for a long time after, like in radars. But CDMA although is a broad spectrum system has nothing to do with it and WiFi can change channels but just sometimes for avoiding interference, so is not a frequency hopping system.
@@Jakedillmane12 Not even close of her ideas frequency hoping is completelly different from spread spectrum and specifically CDMA mode of spread spectrum that uses orthogonal codes to transmit several channels over the same band. Those are completelly unrelated things. CDMA idea is based in abstract vector spaces.
@@Jakedillmane12 What she invented has no relation whatsoever with WiFi and CDMA. Anyone the knows exactly how they work and how historically they were created knows that. She was a brilliant engineer so there is no necessity to tell this legend to praise her. It is another imprecise, false bullshit perpetuated by the Internet where the burden of proof is zero.
I found this channel because the Goggle video was in my recommended and I watched it and then saw your other great videos and subbed and now you're my favourite TH-camr!
Well done, except that AOL did not invent monthly subscription pricing. They were one of the hold-outs, still billing based on hours of use for their not-quite-full-internet BBS. You may want to read up on Panix or other early ISPs that had been BBSes with T1 lines. I remember selecting a dial-up ISP back in 1996 because they were $19/mo instead of $20/mo, then being wicked happier when I could pay annually for the same cost as nine months of service. AOL was still charging weird rates.
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." - Al Gore. I like Gore and think he did a lot of good things like help more people access it, but he completely overstated his role in the creation of the Internet. How can one take "I took the initiative in creating the Internet" as anything but claiming something he didnt do? The Internet's creation took place well before he ever held any office. I have used the Internet since the early 80s. Well before the web. Thank god people have made documentaries about the real engineers who created the Internet. They spent decades doing the real work. Why didnt Al Gore acknowledge them?
The Gore Bill was a game changer over one summer I went from looking for a library book with the card catalog to using a computer. It literally saved me hours and hours of time and shortly after the internet became available at the library. There was this science fiction author I enjoyed growing up and didn't realize until 1992 that the library had three other books by him in general fiction. They are still some of my favorite horror books.
This video gave such a great recap/overview of what I studied in my networking courses 💕 The internet is so wonderful and complex, still hard to wrap my head around haha
9:41 I believe this idea of splitting the paths of the information packets was really about making sure that in a retaliatory nuclear strike, our command and control could communicate even if many facilities had already been obliterated… the launch codes could make it through an already damaged network.
This video is pretty interesting thus far, but in the future maybe use some kind of deesser if you aren’t already. Or at least lower the high tones so your esses aren’t so loud as it makes it hard to listen to.
Internet Explorer didn't just replace Netscape Navigator fading it into obscurity; it was created directly from the same program called Mosaic which was also the foundation of Netscape and went on to be Firefox. Microsoft paid for the license to use Mosaic at the core of IE, and you can see that by looking at the Help About dialog in any version of IE. When Marc Andreessen was writing Mosaic at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana, IL in the early 1990s before he founded Netscape, I was a student at the University of Illinois, and I lived one block away from the NCSA building where he worked. I could even see part of the building from my bedroom window; I had no idea the world was being changed right under my nose.
thanks for this helped A LOT😂💯, if college classes could teach in the form of TH-cam videos like this, I'm pretty sure more people would pass/understand the topic better but to each his own.
I'm not sure how well known is that ARPANET story, but I was told that tale about DARPA and interconnecting computers back in my computer science class around 2002-3, in 9th-10th grade, and I'm from El Salvador, so... it should be taught in either computer science classes or in regular history classes at this point
Imagine being one of these people that helped create the internet and coming back to see what it’s become and it’s just people sharing videos of themselves eating ass online 🤣
I think this is such a great video to explain the fundamentals of all the protocols. Great to understand the background and what lead up to what we have today.
20:40 Heidi Lamarr did not give the inspiration for Wi-Fi, she gave the inspiration for spread spectrum frequency hopping. Wi-Fi standards do not employ frequency hopping. Frequency hopping is a method used to combat jamming, a problem which is not an issue in most generic scenarios such as with the Internet and regular Wi-Fi applications. Frequency Hopping is mostly found in military contexts or places where anti-jam is highly important.
There are so many people here claiming they created the internet. Let me set the record straight. In spite of the fact that I wasn’t born until a few years after the world wide web came about, I most definitely created the internet. The whole thing. That's right! But in all seriousness, i had no idea of just how much of the internet’s history I’d missed. I never heard much except Russians, Arpa net and internet. So thank you for expanding my knowledge
What are the odds that I was just thinking of Great Gig in the Sky and you play it at 7:41 right as I’m internally listening to it. Did not except that in this video but it literally just made my day. Great content also.
for anyone interested in the shadowy origins of today’s Internet I would highly recommend reading “surveillance Valley “ by Yasha Levine . amazing book
This video is a masterclass on teaching. Learned so much basic computer science and networking fundamentals. Nikola Tesla should get an honorable mention whenever talking about wifi. Thank you.
No one ever charged for what Internet sites someone accessed based on distance. Access was charged per hour/minute and sometimes per amount of data transmitted (especially in the case of cellular). The only companies charging for access distance were the telcos for private leased lines (and they still do today, but most people rarely use this and instead us the "flat rate" Internet). But your point is correct, AOL was on of first major ISPs that offered a "flat rate" $19.95 made the amount one used the Internet negligible that opened the Internet up at a very affordable price to everyone in the US.
To anyone who is interested in what he meant about the internet's two core data transmissions TCP vs UDP protocols: TCP is the one that you use when you need to transmit data and make sure that the recipient got it. When the recipient gets the packet, it sends back a response (acknowledgement) and if the sender doesn't get that, it sends it again. This is what you might use when requesting a web page and sending it back. UDP is a much quicker 'fire and forget' protocol where you send lots of data to a recipient, but with no acknowlegement because you don't care if it was received. Games use this so send players' position data over and over as you move. The recipient doesn't care if it doesn't receive some of the updates because the player has already moved anyway! TCP is reliable but slow because of the back and forth and verification process. UDP is quick.
I'm glad someone made a video that actually says when the internet happened: the US defense industries/gov created the internet in 1969 when the first computers were connected to ARPANET, which would soon become the first wide-area TCP network. Al Gore deserves about as much credit as the next guy who invented the internet. At least, this must be the case on average - the average "person who made the internet" will receive the average amount of credit, obviously. So, it took a thousand people, and we could get this done quickly by giving each of them 0.1% credit for ruining the planet and the societies on it. Thank you, Al Gore, for your part in ruining the attention span and critical thinking ability of our species. Sure, Al Gore enabled the aol-based september that never ended which ruined the internet, but that disaster would have occured eventually. There's just too much obvious money in connecting arbitrarily large quantities of customers to automated services of your company's own design, and too much obvious power inherent to any billionaire thinking of buying up another ten newspapers/TV stations in letting some of that "news" exist perpetually on a server accessible to the public. Reminder that javascript is an existential risk and was invented as a scripting language for netscape navigator to add a bit of flair to static webpages but ended up just giving us popup ads, virus embeds, tracking, and security risks. Didn't the drug transaction predate the Sting CD purchase? I could've sworn that was the first online transaction. Maybe it doesn't count since those students knew eachother.
Well done and easy to understand to to the average viewer, I had already learned all this about 20 years ago, in a more intense history documentary on the subject.
Thanks, buddy! That was a fantastic video. It really provides a thorough snapshot of how the internet got its start. Your video will help people from generation to generation understand one of the most iconic inventions in all of human history.
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@@justinianthegreatandnerd6377 it still happened
So I can’t say a company shut down when it acctually happen
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People mocked Al Gore for his comment, but look at how tough it is to pass any meaningful legislation that betters public education and libraries today. He deserves kudos
fall guys 😀
Is it difficult, or do they refuse to pass any meaningful legislation?
@@lunarna It's difficult
It should be difficult to pass legislation. Way more difficult than it actually is.
@@lunarna those 2 ideas aren't mutually exclusive, it can be difficult BECAUSE they refuse.
Thanks!
Learned so much about the history of the internet in 22 minutes than I knew all my life. Likely the best video in all of TH-cam on this topic.
Wow!! Thank you so much for the contribution!! I really appreciate it!!! More content to come! 💙
Same here!
what do you term the contributory comment, super comment? is it that?
nice
@@rtxon69 if you press the "Thanks" button, you can leave a comment with a donation
not sure what’s the term for this type of comment tough
If I remember correctly, Firefox was not a rebranding of Netscape. Rather, it was an different browser made by Netscape employees who left the company to start Mozilla. Great video, learned something new!
That’s right! I could have been more descriptive on that for sure haha. Thanks for the note and thanks for watching! :)
Mozilla Suite (including and email client and browser) was released after the Netscape code was open sourced. Firefox was not originally made by the Mozilla Foundation. It was a private code fork of Mozilla intended to be much faster and less bloated. I started using it when it was called Phoenix browser. This was then changed to Firebird and finally Firefox. It attracted users at such a speed that eventually Mozilla Foundation adopted it.
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@@nationsquid Haven't learned from Al Gore bruv
The same Nahtzees that fired the CEO because he disagreed with the Commie/Fascist huer Progressives that worked for him.
As someone who was born in 1971. It's been interesting to experience the real time development of the INTERNET. From not really understanding or appreciating the potential, to fascination, slow integration, access to endless amounts of knowledge, the promise of a united world, and now the destruction of individual liberties and lives. 😢
I was born in 1970, i remember being in a pub talking to a friend who was really into computers and asking him what the internet was. I'd had a computer (Sinclair Spectrum) for years but i kept hearing people talking about the internet and couldn't work out what it was for, lol.
My career encompassed the birth of the internet to its current status. It was a great time to alive!
As a socially awkward teen back then, I'd be a target of bullying/teasing just for my poor choice of words.
I feel you, Al Gore.
yeah i agree man bear pig turned out real
Nobody took him cereal
i see people of culture
Al Gore... A i Gore. A.I GORE. He's an evil robot I call it.
I mean he turned out to be right about climate change. Everyone made fun of him but he was right. Maybe we kind of owe him a collective apology.
The "Gore bill" sounds metal as hell.
Hell yeah!!! 😅
And most likely you will see gore on the internet
it really doesn't
@@robroy6374 It really does, but go off I guess.
@@panqueque445 no it doesn't
Simplified yet true to its original history. Well scripted and paced. Video editing is good too. I'm going to share this to a bunch of my peers! Keep going.
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This is one of my favorite real life history stories, as someone who grew up on the internet it's always been so fascinating to me, although I'd admit that fascination has died in the last decade. Because of that it's always great as well to hear it again, and you did a great job as per usual in both your coverage and editing that I feel like I could share to people since it's not heavy into the complicated details. Thanks NationSquid.
I feel the same. As a 90s kid, I have memories of being so fascinated, and stimulated, by the influx of information and images/video made available. I learned html and css coding because I was obsessed with making websites just for the sake of it.
Not so much nowadays, but it's been amazing to gain more insight on the internet phenomenon
@@Disco4ia It's definitely had a lot of impact on my interests as well, I started out just messing with HTML and CSS but it evolved into my love for personal computing and technology in general. I'll be getting my associates in a comp sci course and plan on working for other certifications as well in the next coming years.
The reason the internet isnt interesting anymore is that is there isnt any more innovation because we have a system that works as well as it will ever get
You know it's top tier informative video when you learn more in it than in 5 years of IT high school and 3 years of IT University
What is an IT university? I have a degree in computer science from a real uni, and we covered all this.
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The invention of network address translation is also super important to I wish that was mentioned
@@Trollleben i mean consider that we did programming, only high school cared about the history of it itself, the teaching was good, they just thought it was not important to mention the origin itself but just how it works and what to make on it in uni, in high school a little bit of mention but just a few times just for curiosity
I can't believe Al Gore single-handedly sat down and invented the internet. Amazing.
you better believe 'cause it's super cereal
Don't forget manbearpig.
he actually had no role in its creation. It existed well before he ever held office
@@ytgadfly didn't get the joke
I wish we had a president who was capable of that. Instead we have an entire government of 80 year olds who dont even use the internet. Especially not our last two presidents lol
What an amazing documentary. I'm a technology engineer student and this stuff fascinates me. Also my monke brain thinks, internet is just phones 2.0. crazy to think how much information the CIA and other governments sent 'over the wire' and then later how much of a huge backend the actual internet has
How monke make rock think? How monke make rock talk to each other? Grog scratch head.
@@TecnoTyler **confused unga-bunga**
What is phones 2.0?
Great video. NS really tackled a very complex topic and explained it so well.
Thank you so much for your support as always, Blake!!!! :)
Man, the Cold War brought to us some wild stuff that we take for granted nowadays
Your content is always so clean and crisp and informative, really love it.
Hahaha, leave it to beaver is so great!! This was an interesting video, as I always thought it was Tim Berners Lee. Thanks for enlightening me on the origins of the Internet! Again, great video as always, you just keep outdoing yourself!! I love that you have a turntable as well, I never knew you were into records!
Agree too
Thank you so much!! Yes, I sure love my turntable. Been using it a lot around the house! As always, more content to come! :)
@@nationsquid That's so cool! Dark side of the moon is always going to have one of my favorite album covers. Smooth UDP joke by the way!
@@nationsquid yay 😁
The REAL internet was the friends we made along the way.
Copied, but always funny! :D
Maybe it's because I'm an introvert, but am I the only one that doesn't like this type of comment?
@@NightCloudI nothing wrong with the comment, it's an obvious joke.
As another introvert, I do get annoyed when people say the Internet made us isolated. No it hasn't. I've met most of my closest friends on the Internet.
@@mirzaahmed6589 Ikr, and for us introverts internet is a great way to spend fun time with a friend. We can watch videos and discuss or theorize about it after or we can play some online games. :)
Awesome content as usual man! This taught me SO much about the internet and your voice and style of narration and editing is super engaging and mesmerizing, along with the little jokes you throw in throughout your videos! You’re my favorite channel and I’m glad you’ve been uploading more lately :)
i totally agree. this guy is refreshigly unique and very informative.
TIL that it was willy wonka that invented the internet
Had “great gig in the sky” stuck in my head for the rest of the video after it played and it honestly kinda gave me some deep existential feelings, just thinking about how much technology has evolved in such a relatively small amount of time. Great video
I loved how you highlighted how individual people can have such a big impact on the course of history. It’s crazy to thing about. Great video 😊
This has to be one of your best videos yet! I have kind of dug into this topic in the past but really came out more confused. Growing up I didn't really question what internet was or how it came to be. Actually funny enough I remember when we got our first pc we referred to it as "the internet." We didn't use it for much else at the time.
Glad you enjoyed it!! More videos coming your way soon. :)
okay almost completely unrelated but i keep misreading al gore's name as artificial intelligence gore
Amazing at the time, in 1995 we planned an entire 3-week trip, using MapQuest, online hotel reservations, and message boards. We even advance purchased tickets for a Cinema show in Dayton, OH. Nowdays thats the norm, but some of this tech was brand new and amazed people. As a side note, everything went flawlessly.
This was so well made, respect and appreciation for another video this high quality!
Incredible video. Super ambitious but covers so many important developments clearly and succinctly. So far the video hasn't performed near as well as the others on your channel, but I wouldn't be surprised if it consistently gets views over a long period of time. It deserves that for sure.
This is one of only two channels for which I've actually clicked the bell. Excellent video as always.
Yup!! Same
18:46 internet service providers (ISP) did not charge long distance fees for accessing websites on the other side of the world. The video says that with a world spanning network, charging people long distance became a turn-off because you couldn't tell where a server was and would suddenly be hit with long distance charges until AOL came around and offered a fixed monthly fee. That's not what I recall at all.
What I recall is that we were charged per minute of connection. This sounds like long distance charges, but is not. You were simply charged whenever you were connected, even if you weren't downloading anything but preparing and email to be sent. And eventually it moved to a fixed rate for unlimited access. I think the script took what we all know of long distance charges now (and then), and got confused when they heard of pay by the minute charges and wild internet bills. But it had nothing to do with the location of the server. Only your connection time.
I did a quick search and couldn't find anything like that. If anyone can confirm that any ISPs ever did this, that would be great. I certainly don't recall ever hearing this when I had dial-up internet in the 90s as a teen, but I do recall the unlimited use being a promotional point for ISPs.
What I got from the sentence is what other people (general public) assumed and didn't understand - as they were used to only how phones work. You tell somebody in 1991 that you can "use your phone to connect to somebody across the world", they would assume you would be charged for long distance.
When AOL came in with its massive marketing campaign, they took advantage of this confusion, but also improved the billing system to be cheaper (assuming you use it enough) and easily understood.
I have faint memories of the early days of AOL (as in, I remember a time before people got AOL despite it being around at the time). My family was already using AOL and had been long before anybody else I knew (my dad used to code games and programmes so he was tech savvy at the time). I remember that we'd call my aunt in the evenings after a specific time because it was cheaper due to the package we had. One of my friends had only DOS on her family's computer for a long time and no internet. Another who was more well off got AOL before others. I do remember adult discussions of how it worked / how it charged etc - just like how I know it was cheaper to call my aunt after a specific time. I was very young at the time so I can't recall much other than the vague understanding that most people didn't understand the billing system outside of AOL.
I suppose it's like using data on pay-as-you go and being charged so much per X MB of data. You just have no concept of how much it will charge you until you check your balance (or in their case, the monthly phone bill)
I also remember the big ass beige boxes in the darkest corner of pubs where you'd put in a £2 coin to use it for 10 minutes lol
The high bill came from the fact that they charged you for usage by the hour but eventually went to an unlimited plan. The only long distance charge may have been if you used a local access number from a different location. Also Service providers such as AOL and Compuserve didn't originally provide internet service, they provided a connection to their private network. They also didn't use a web browser, they used proprietary software.
Poor Al Gore . The one time people take him cereal it was a poorly worded sentence.
As a network engineer, all of this is my bread and butter. The simplicity and in depthness of your explanations is amazing! I got giddy when you mentioned STP! This is an amazing video
Man this channel is an absolute gem of interesting information. Keep it up!
I enjoy your every videos, they give me enjoyment and education at the same time. By the way, I ended up getting the joke, because it was dropped off safely by the mailman. keep creating man, you are one of the few who gives me the old feeling of the simpler times
He didn't invent the Internet, no, but what he did was very monumental in driving the Internet forward for everyone to access.
He also warned us about global warming- people laughed at him- but we are seeing the effects of it now.
This is criminally underrated!
Just so you lnow Al Gore never ever once said that he invented the internet. He said exactly "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." By that he meant legislation for the internet. Which is 100 percent true.
Hedi Lamar was a brilliant engineer, but didn't invented CDMA or WiFi. She invented what was called frequency hopping communication. The patent specifies using it to control torpedoes or drones (I really can't remember). This was used for a long time after, like in radars. But CDMA although is a broad spectrum system has nothing to do with it and WiFi can change channels but just sometimes for avoiding interference, so is not a frequency hopping system.
He never said she did. He just said it was built off her ideas
@@Jakedillmane12 Not even close of her ideas frequency hoping is completelly different from spread spectrum and specifically CDMA mode of spread spectrum that uses orthogonal codes to transmit several channels over the same band. Those are completelly unrelated things. CDMA idea is based in abstract vector spaces.
@agranero6 do you know what a idea is? What you are explaining sounds like a copycat not just a idea of radio waves for communication
@@Jakedillmane12 What she invented has no relation whatsoever with WiFi and CDMA. Anyone the knows exactly how they work and how historically they were created knows that. She was a brilliant engineer so there is no necessity to tell this legend to praise her. It is another imprecise, false bullshit perpetuated by the Internet where the burden of proof is zero.
@agranero6 frequency hoping is literally wifi or the stepping stones atleast
I found this channel because the Goggle video was in my recommended and I watched it and then saw your other great videos and subbed and now you're my favourite TH-camr!
Thank you for your support! More content coming your way! :)
Nation squad and magnatesmedia, both of your channels are so so underrated, I wish you guys grow , and I want to help in any ways I can
The group that developed TCP/IP deserve the credit for pioneering internet.
Well done, except that AOL did not invent monthly subscription pricing. They were one of the hold-outs, still billing based on hours of use for their not-quite-full-internet BBS. You may want to read up on Panix or other early ISPs that had been BBSes with T1 lines.
I remember selecting a dial-up ISP back in 1996 because they were $19/mo instead of $20/mo, then being wicked happier when I could pay annually for the same cost as nine months of service. AOL was still charging weird rates.
@nationsquid - what an amazing job explaining a concept so complicated!
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." - Al Gore.
I like Gore and think he did a lot of good things like help more people access it, but he completely overstated his role in the creation of the Internet. How can one take "I took the initiative in creating the Internet" as anything but claiming something he didnt do? The Internet's creation took place well before he ever held any office.
I have used the Internet since the early 80s. Well before the web. Thank god people have made documentaries about the real engineers who created the Internet. They spent decades doing the real work. Why didnt Al Gore acknowledge them?
Wow. This is basically the entire lecture of basic computer networking in under 30 minutes. 👏
The Gore Bill was a game changer over one summer I went from looking for a library book with the card catalog to using a computer. It literally saved me hours and hours of time and shortly after the internet became available at the library. There was this science fiction author I enjoyed growing up and didn't realize until 1992 that the library had three other books by him in general fiction. They are still some of my favorite horror books.
This video gave such a great recap/overview of what I studied in my networking courses 💕 The internet is so wonderful and complex, still hard to wrap my head around haha
To me Licklider was the "inventor", he created what would evolve into the modern internet.
But in the end is like asking who invented roads...
Back in 1995 it was amazing to me that I could get in the internet with just my phone line and AOL and it only took 5 minutes to load a page. 🤯 😂
Edison invented light bulb? In parallel universe maybe....
9:41 I believe this idea of splitting the paths of the information packets was really about making sure that in a retaliatory nuclear strike, our command and control could communicate even if many facilities had already been obliterated… the launch codes could make it through an already damaged network.
This video is pretty interesting thus far, but in the future maybe use some kind of deesser if you aren’t already. Or at least lower the high tones so your esses aren’t so loud as it makes it hard to listen to.
Another awesome video NationSquid. I could listen to you literally all day
Internet Explorer didn't just replace Netscape Navigator fading it into obscurity; it was created directly from the same program called Mosaic which was also the foundation of Netscape and went on to be Firefox. Microsoft paid for the license to use Mosaic at the core of IE, and you can see that by looking at the Help About dialog in any version of IE.
When Marc Andreessen was writing Mosaic at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana, IL in the early 1990s before he founded Netscape, I was a student at the University of Illinois, and I lived one block away from the NCSA building where he worked. I could even see part of the building from my bedroom window; I had no idea the world was being changed right under my nose.
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn’s contribution to the world cannot be overstated. They are the true fathers of the internet.
if we ignore the freaky 5 and all the horror stories you've uploaded initially .. all you videos except those are very underrated
Imagine how amazing it must have been to be a part of creating the internet. I feel like I would love my job everyday.
Your videos are so underrated . Loved it.
He responded to me in premiere chat at 0:54, 5:26, 8:56, 15:30, and 19:08! I actually can't believe I got noticed!
thanks for this helped A LOT😂💯, if college classes could teach in the form of TH-cam videos like this, I'm pretty sure more people would pass/understand the topic better but to each his own.
hearing great gig in the sky there immediately put a smile on my face.
i really enjoyed this video! I've been looking for something of thing kind in a long while.
Thank to TH-cam for recommending
2:00 where is Nikola Tesla bro 😮
This is probably one of your best videos.
The real creator of the internet is the friends we made along the way
I'm not sure how well known is that ARPANET story, but I was told that tale about DARPA and interconnecting computers back in my computer science class around 2002-3, in 9th-10th grade, and I'm from El Salvador, so... it should be taught in either computer science classes or in regular history classes at this point
Imagine being one of these people that helped create the internet and coming back to see what it’s become and it’s just people sharing videos of themselves eating ass online 🤣
I think this is such a great video to explain the fundamentals of all the protocols. Great to understand the background and what lead up to what we have today.
Fun fact: on Windows, there is still such a hosts file that you can edit
It is located at: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
It's also available in all *nix systems
As I understand, ARPANET had the bandwidth for over 700 kbit/s in the 60s but the public comms only had 54kbit/s in the 90s.
Amazing! Thank you so much for such an wonderful, informative video :)
20:40 Heidi Lamarr did not give the inspiration for Wi-Fi, she gave the inspiration for spread spectrum frequency hopping. Wi-Fi standards do not employ frequency hopping. Frequency hopping is a method used to combat jamming, a problem which is not an issue in most generic scenarios such as with the Internet and regular Wi-Fi applications. Frequency Hopping is mostly found in military contexts or places where anti-jam is highly important.
"I would tell you a UDP joke, but you probably wouldn't get it" ... dying.... said so straight faced people probably missed that little gem...
Me when i discover that Mosaic, Netscape and Firefox are just re-branded versions of the same program: 🤯
There are so many people here claiming they created the internet. Let me set the record straight. In spite of the fact that I wasn’t born until a few years after the world wide web came about, I most definitely created the internet. The whole thing. That's right!
But in all seriousness, i had no idea of just how much of the internet’s history I’d missed. I never heard much except Russians, Arpa net and internet. So thank you for expanding my knowledge
What are the odds that I was just thinking of Great Gig in the Sky and you play it at 7:41 right as I’m internally listening to it. Did not except that in this video but it literally just made my day. Great content also.
for anyone interested in the shadowy origins of today’s Internet I would highly recommend reading “surveillance Valley “ by Yasha Levine . amazing book
"The internet is us" went straight to the heart. Nice quote.
"blah blah blah blah Willy Wonka blah blah"
Me: "I UNDERSTAND THIS!"
You deserve a lot more of subscribers!!
That thumbnail is a great meme
Ok
I was thinking the same thing
For a subject so vast with information, thanks for taking the time to explain it in layman’s terms. I know you did your research 💯
Now we need how the internet was ruined
Social media
This video is a masterclass on teaching. Learned so much basic computer science and networking fundamentals.
Nikola Tesla should get an honorable mention whenever talking about wifi.
Thank you.
I thought it was ARPA, since ARPANET was the first iteration of the internet we know today.
Nah bruh it’s Al gore
@@sultanofsaturn Bing, bong, sing-along; your team’s Al Gore ‘cause your views are wrong
No one ever charged for what Internet sites someone accessed based on distance. Access was charged per hour/minute and sometimes per amount of data transmitted (especially in the case of cellular). The only companies charging for access distance were the telcos for private leased lines (and they still do today, but most people rarely use this and instead us the "flat rate" Internet). But your point is correct, AOL was on of first major ISPs that offered a "flat rate" $19.95 made the amount one used the Internet negligible that opened the Internet up at a very affordable price to everyone in the US.
To anyone who is interested in what he meant about the internet's two core data transmissions TCP vs UDP protocols:
TCP is the one that you use when you need to transmit data and make sure that the recipient got it. When the recipient gets the packet, it sends back a response (acknowledgement) and if the sender doesn't get that, it sends it again. This is what you might use when requesting a web page and sending it back.
UDP is a much quicker 'fire and forget' protocol where you send lots of data to a recipient, but with no acknowlegement because you don't care if it was received. Games use this so send players' position data over and over as you move. The recipient doesn't care if it doesn't receive some of the updates because the player has already moved anyway!
TCP is reliable but slow because of the back and forth and verification process. UDP is quick.
Actually, your speech abt we communicate with each other feels inspirational. I think you're right :)
P.s. This video is cool as always!
Please tell me you're joking about Edison at the beginning of this vid.
Im currently taking CompTIA courses and I really enjoy this informative and relevant content that bridges the gap between learning and leisure. Thanks
I'm glad someone made a video that actually says when the internet happened: the US defense industries/gov created the internet in 1969 when the first computers were connected to ARPANET, which would soon become the first wide-area TCP network.
Al Gore deserves about as much credit as the next guy who invented the internet. At least, this must be the case on average - the average "person who made the internet" will receive the average amount of credit, obviously. So, it took a thousand people, and we could get this done quickly by giving each of them 0.1% credit for ruining the planet and the societies on it. Thank you, Al Gore, for your part in ruining the attention span and critical thinking ability of our species.
Sure, Al Gore enabled the aol-based september that never ended which ruined the internet, but that disaster would have occured eventually. There's just too much obvious money in connecting arbitrarily large quantities of customers to automated services of your company's own design, and too much obvious power inherent to any billionaire thinking of buying up another ten newspapers/TV stations in letting some of that "news" exist perpetually on a server accessible to the public.
Reminder that javascript is an existential risk and was invented as a scripting language for netscape navigator to add a bit of flair to static webpages but ended up just giving us popup ads, virus embeds, tracking, and security risks.
Didn't the drug transaction predate the Sting CD purchase? I could've sworn that was the first online transaction. Maybe it doesn't count since those students knew eachother.
bruh you just wasted so much time just re-saying and explaining what nationsquid already said in the video. unnessesary.
Skipped to the part about Al Gore inventing the internet don’t need the rest of the video thanks for making it though I learnt a lot xx
Al Gore may have invented it, but Timmy Turner inherited it
N Timmy Burners Launched It
@@NiteDriv3r Timmy burn these nutz
@@cdvideodump No
13:46 Esperanto: Hello there.
Why did the video's title change? Is this the same video? I didn't get around to watching it before.
Well done and easy to understand to to the average viewer, I had already learned all this about 20 years ago, in a more intense history documentary on the subject.
If I remember correctly, that single statement lost the election for Al Gore.
Thanks, buddy! That was a fantastic video. It really provides a thorough snapshot of how the internet got its start. Your video will help people from generation to generation understand one of the most iconic inventions in all of human history.
Everyone invented the internet. (The good ending)
There is no good ending.
or nobody invented the internet, it was always there, we just built computers and devices to make use of it.. what about that?
I like this content, youve got a good neutral / relaxing voice........and the editing style doesnt have loads of kabooms, whizzbangs and wallops
This is gonna be EPIC
Well... you do need to be always Online to use Games from Epic.
This is such a great tutorial. So many things have come together in my understanding.
We all know it was Al Gore, he's even said it himself in his iconic quote "I invented the Internet"
He said no such thing
@@Allen.Christian my uncle who works for Nintendo confirmed it
@@Allen.Christian He did, actually.
Simply watching the video before you stuff your foot in your mouth in the comments section is easy…see.
@@JSLeeds simply re-reading my comments before you stuff your foot in your mouth in my replies is easy...see.