History of the Internet in Youtube Video Form

Here’s a great short video that gives a fairly comprehensive history of the Internet.  I really like the animation style.

Odlyzko on GigaOm

I was happy to see one of my dissertation committee members on the front page of GigaOm this afternoon.  Professor Odlyzko is on the faculty of the Mathematics department at the University of Minnesota and is the former director of the U’s Digital Technology Center.  The GigaOm article discusses his recent research on net neutrality, in particular the impact of streaming video on the Internet and consumers willingness to pay for connectivity over content.  Andrew is an innovative thinker on Internet economics and you can find more of his recent work here.  He is the lead of the Minnesota Interent Traffic Studies project (MINTS) and also has an interesting book coming out soon relating the dot-com bubble to the British rail road bubble of the mid 1800s.