OLLI Course: Internet History

Course Summary

next: Medford: Fall 2019?
Sessions: 2
Course URL: https://communicrossings.com/olli-course-internet-history
50 years ago, UCLA and Stanford exchanged the first message over the internet (Arpanet).
30 years ago, a CERN lab in Switzerland created the first web page.
Al Gore's role? First spam email? First web browser? First online purchase?
This lecture course will highlight these and other major design and development milestones, along with selected technology precursors and future challenges; it's a much shorter (2-sessions), more up-to-date version of: Internet History and Issues (aka 'Evolution of the Internet')

steve

Steve Weyer has taught courses at OLLI since 2010:
CROSSWORDS and YOU (history, solving, practice, authoring)
Constructing Crosswords (themes, grid, fill, clues, publish)
Disaster Preparedness: Almeda, Cascadia, Zombies
P@s$w0rdz (passwords, password managers)
Be Safer on the Internet (security and privacy)
E-books
Internet History and Issues
Steve has 55+ years experience with computer software, including research and development
on programming languages, learning environments, electronic books, and artificial intelligence
at Stanford, Xerox PARC, Atari, HP Labs, Apple and 2 startups.
He has constructed and published crossword puzzles; his debut New York Times crossword appeared on Wed, 11/1/2023.
He developed and distributed "Newt's Cape" (a Newton web browser),
"CrozzWord" (a Java-based crossword solving application),
and other mobile apps for early handhelds and smartphones.
Steve has a BS in Math (Univ. of Wash.), and an MS in Statistics and PhD in Education (Stanford).

Steve discovered his computer obsession at Seattle's 1962 World's Fair,
coded his first programs at Univ. of Washington in 1968,
and used the Internet (then, Arpanet, for telnet, ftp and email) at Stanford Univ. ~1972.

List of Steve's publications, interviews, and crosswords.
After moving to Ashland in 2006 (after several theater visits in the mid-70s during grad school),
Steve has been enjoying many non-technical activities: hiking, backpacking, biking,
cross-country skiing, reading/movies (esp. Sci-Fi), grandparenting, improv comedy, craft beer,
and volunteering at Ashland CERT and OLLI at SOU.
I welcome feedback via Contact Us (under Home menu)
-- about topics, issues, pace, level of detail, other courses, etc.