Video response

What amazes me about the video is that many of the people in charge of "inventing" the internet are no older than I am. I cannot remember their names but both the grad student at MIT and the guy that invented Netscape were both in college. It gives me hope that some of my ideas might actually be good ones. It is also awesome that these guys really didn't have a goal, they really didn't have a purpose of inventing it. As Cindy said in class, they built it just because it seemed cool, just to see if they could do it. Now, as the video said, it is probably the most important invention in the history of man.
On the physical side, one thing I never thought of is how creating a universal language that all computers understand and all the obstacles that would entail. Think about it like this: try getting humans from different parts of the globe to have a conversation. It wouldn't happen. Same thing with the early times of the internet. When you have a bunch of different groups of people all over the world using different brands of different machines, trying to get all of those machines on the same page was obviously a daunting task. So, I love what they did to make it work. We'll create one machine (IMP)that each different computer can plug into that way only the IMPs have to "talk" to eachother. It's the IMPs that broke down and built up the coded bits so each different computer can use the same information. It's is just awesome to see ideas from only 40 years ago that are still changing the world today.