2026-07-11 –, P2P Portal
Back by popular demand: the Internet's pioneers gather to tell stories from the early days of the Web.
Baumgart may tell a few stories about the people, machines, bots and culture at the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s. Latter career helping Internet Archive build data centers.
When the WWW was still young, how did the pioneers decide how to grow, govern, and make decisions about this revolutionary new stack of technologies? Come listen in as the originals who built the very foundations of the Web reminisce, reflect, and ruminate on the last four decades. We'll hear how Web 1.0 started, the mistakes, the triumphs, and the lessons for a new generation of builders.
Can we reconjure the magic of this spontaneous gathering at DWeb Camp 2019?
https://medium.com/decentralized-web/the-internets-old-guard-c10b0ff0fb8d
Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive
Internet Hall of Fame
National Academy of Engineering
Computer History Museum Fellow
Mitch Altman is a hacker and inventor, known for inventing TV-B-Gone, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places. He co-founded a successful SillyValley startup and did pioneering work in Virtual Reality. He is an author and teacher, and goes around the world giving talks and workshops. He also performs spacey noise music on his self-made synthesizers. Mitch promotes hackerspaces, open source hardware, and mentors others wherever he goes. He is a co-founder of Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco, and is founder of Cornfield Electronics.
Retired Internet Archive staffer
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