looking forward to more: a internet history project, conducted by karl auerbach and chris wellens

episode one, with russ haines (dec) mark manasse (dec), steve rubin (apple) about

the first (1993, via mbone) internetband severe tire damage

btw. auerbach's icann lawcase as well as his thoughts about "stakeholderism" is worth a re-read, too.

brian oakley has died in august. always hoped i would have a chance to find him before to talk about the alvey programm, but i didn't take a close look at the "real time club" ...

Without Oakley, Conservative PM Maggie Thatcher might not have given IT a seat in government with her creation of a Minister of Information. Without his pushing, Bletchley Park might today be sitting underneath a housing estate in the Midlands. | brian wynne oakley

oakley was also director of logica's research centre in cambridge, after he retired from the civil service, derek barber writes in his currculum vitae summary.

as some old links here are not links these days: an update to a functional pointer to robotron: nice material, ie about

"(OPREMA=Optische Rechenmaschine)
Dieser auf Relaisbasis arbeitende Rechner wurde 1955 von der Firma Carl Zeiss Jena gebaut und dort für optischen Berechnungen (Linsensysteme) eingesetzt. Die Entwicklungen dazu begannen 1954. Die Grundfläche des Rechners betrug 55 m². | robotrontechnik