Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and special guest Jason Pargin explore why “http www” is secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR JASON PARGIN:
- READ I’m Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom, the new novel by Jason Pargin!
- Jason Pargin on Tiktok
- “Bigfeets” (1900HOTDOG and Apple Podcasts)
- Jason’s website
- Jason’s Substack
- Jason Pargin on Twitter
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- native-land.ca
- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
- How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough
- UCLA bio page for Leonard Kleinrock
- Kleinrock Introduces the Concept Later Known as Packet Switching (HistoryOfInformation.com)
- When the Internet Was Invented, It Was First Just for Scientists (Popular Mechanics)
- A Remembrance and Defense of Ted Stevens’ ‘Series of Tubes’ (PC Magazine)
- “The promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet” (United Nations General Assembly)
- UN condemns internet access disruption as a human rights violation (The Verge)
- SciShow: “How the Internet Was Invented: Part 1” (YouTube)
- SciShow: “How the Internet Was Invented: Part 2” (YouTube)
- Why Firefox Is Moving to DNS Over HTTPS—and What That Means for You (Popular Mechanics)
- website of James Marshall: “What is HTTP?”
- Donald Davies (Internet Hall Of Fame)
- Paul Baran, Internet Pioneer, Dies at 84 (The New York Times)
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition for “kludge”
- BELL SYSTEM BREAKUP OPENS ERA OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS AND GREAT CONCERN (The New York Times)
- “As We May Think” by Vannevar Bush (The Atlantic)
- Robert Cailliau (Internet Hall Of Fame)
- The inventor of the World Wide Web almost named it after himself (The Daily Dot)
- The World Wide Web Was Almost Known as “The Mesh” (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Network Designer Tim Berners-Lee (Time Magazine)
- Tim Berners-Lee / The World Wide Web (Lemelson-MIT)
- Internet Explorer is Officially Dead: Is Your Favorite Browser Next? (Popular Mechanics)
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Undersea Cables
In this episode...
Guests
- Jason Pargin
About the show
A weekly podcast about the history, science, lore and surprises that make everyday things secretly incredibly fascinating. Hosted by comedy writer, emoji creator, and ‘Jeopardy!‘ champion Alex Schmidt. Join Alex & his co-host Katie Goldin for a joyful deep dive into seeing the world a whole new way!
Get in touch with the show
@sifpod
@sifpod
SIF on Discord!People
How to listen
Stream or download episodes directly from our website, or listen via your favorite podcatcher!
New? Start here...
Liked Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: http www? Listen to these next...
