Picture Me Coding
Picture Me Coding is a music podcast about software. Each week your hosts Erik Aker and Mike Mull take on topics in the software world and they are sometimes joined by guests from other fields who arrive with their own burning questions about technology.
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Picture Me Coding
The Prehistory of the Internet
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This episode started with the question: who first had the idea to connect computers together to make a network? We explore JCR Licklider's ideas about an "Intergalactic Network", some of the earliest attempts at networking, and the ideas that lead to packet switching and the Arpanet.
SAGE: Semi-Automatic Ground Environment Air Defense System | MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Memorandum for Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network
The Arpanet and Computer Networks
60 Years of Networking - by Bruce Davies - Systems Approach
Information Flow in Large Communication Nets (1961, Leonard Kleinrock, MIT)
On Distributed Communications Networks (1962, Paul Baran, RAND)
National Physical Laboratory Proposal for a Digital Communication Network by D. W. Davies June, 1966
