You also have to realize that the Internet’s history was created by an MBA-centric program, not information/KM-centric professionals who would have been more thorough in their coverage.
Stephen Abram is a librarian and principal with Lighthouse Consulting Inc., and executive director of the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries. He blogs on library strategies for direction, marketing, technology and user alignment.
3 Responses
Stay in touch with the conversation, subscribe to the RSS feed for comments on this post.
Oh dear…another history of the Internet that doesn’t mention Hytelnet, Gopher, WAIS, Archie, Veronica, FTP, PGP, and so on…
Peter – that’s why the history as poster format fails. We need to return to scrolls!
SA
You also have to realize that the Internet’s history was created by an MBA-centric program, not information/KM-centric professionals who would have been more thorough in their coverage.