History of the Internet

I thought the video was informative and creative. It was interesting to see how the development of the separate networks into what would become today's internet went about, because it makes me wonder whether or not the people working on it at that point knew how much the technology could change society as they knew it. The narrator pointed out himself in the video how they would still have to deliver letters or what not to discuss the developments of ARPANET etc., it's just interesting to wonder if they had any idea that by establishing a social connection through these computers that it would eventually become what it is now, in terms of how we all use facebook and e-mail to keep contact with people halfway across the country from us.

Though it was interesting, it could have been more interesting if the animation directed off into a whole made up segment about how the military computers were used to develop Skynet and the narrator continued on to tell how our own defense systems from enemy countries ended up turning on us and caused Judgment Day (sorry, that was random, but I'm a big "Terminator" fan and couldn't resist writing about this since I was thinking about it through the whole second half of the video).

Back to the point though, I thought the video was a very helpful tool as a visual aid to allow us to better understand the more evolutionary process of the internet from it's roots rather than just having the facts from lecture.