Episodes
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A short introduction to this album.
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Transcript -- A short introduction to this album.
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Professor John Naughton of The Open University reveals some of the key players in the history of the internet, and explores some of the surprises it has sprung.
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Transcript -- Professor John Naughton of The Open University reveals some of the key players in the history of the internet, and explores some of the surprises it has sprung.
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Vint Cerf, often known as 'the father of the internet' talks about the early days of internet development and the ten years it took to get from an idea on the back of an envelope to a fully functional system.
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Transcript -- Vint Cerf, often known as 'the father of the internet' talks about the early days of internet development and the ten years it took to get from an idea on the back of an envelope to a fully functional system.
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Donald Davies, a British pioneer of the early internet, explain his key contribution to internet technology - chopping data into small packets that could be transmitted across the netwrok and recombined at the other end.
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Transcript -- Donald Davies, a British pioneer of the early internet, explain his key contribution to internet technology - chopping data into small packets that could be transmitted across the netwrok and recombined at the other end.
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Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, talks about where the idea came from and some of the challenges that had to be met in turning his dream into reality.
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Transcript -- Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, talks about where the idea came from and some of the challenges that had to be met in turning his dream into reality.
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Email pioneer Ray Tomlinson talks about about the first mail programme and the origins of the @ symbol.
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Transcript -- Email pioneer Ray Tomlinson talks about about the first mail programme and the origins of the @ symbol.
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The founders of Yahoo talk about how they got started and how their browser and search engine developed to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the internet
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Transcript -- The founders of Yahoo talk about how they got started and how their browser and search engine developed to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the internet
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Two founding members of the Lopht talk about their motivation for finding flaws in commercial software, and why hackers like them should be considered on the side of good rather than the side of evil.
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Transcript -- Two founding members of the Lopht talk about their motivation for finding flaws in commercial software, and why hackers like them should be considered on the side of good rather than the side of evil.
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Professor John Naughton of The Open University reveals how how a bright disaffected teenager took the music industry by surprise with a file sharing service called Napster.
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Transcript -- Professor John Naughton of The Open University reveals how how a bright disaffected teenager took the music industry by surprise with a file sharing service called Napster.
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Rodney Harrison, lecturer in heritage studies of The Open University, explains why he is doing archaeological research into Second Life, and what he has uncovered so far.
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Transcript -- Rodney Harrison, lecturer in heritage studies of The Open University, explains why he is doing archaeological research into Second Life, and what he has uncovered so far.
