1 00:00:00,950 --> 00:00:04,210 So I really like [COUGH] that video, it's real precious to me. 2 00:00:04,210 --> 00:00:07,900 We shot it in 1999. I don't know if you notice, but I got a 3 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:10,420 ponytail in back, and I got a village people mustache. 4 00:00:10,420 --> 00:00:15,588 when I 1st came to the University of Michigan I thought I was pretty special 5 00:00:15,588 --> 00:00:19,270 so I grew the ponytail I don't have a ponytail anymore. 6 00:00:19,270 --> 00:00:24,890 I got my hairs a little darker now. it was. 7 00:00:24,890 --> 00:00:28,784 I, I really liked the moment where, he started yelling at me, because I liked 8 00:00:28,784 --> 00:00:31,731 HTML. And HTML these days with HTML 5 is so 9 00:00:31,731 --> 00:00:35,550 much better than HTML was. He was exactly right that HTML wasn't 10 00:00:35,550 --> 00:00:38,580 elegant. But it was amazingly powerful at the same 11 00:00:38,580 --> 00:00:41,238 time. And the fact that we could see it meant 12 00:00:41,238 --> 00:00:44,470 that people believed in it and it wasn't, it wasn't magic. 13 00:00:44,470 --> 00:00:48,694 the other thing that you might have noticed is that he had some very strong 14 00:00:48,694 --> 00:00:52,918 opinions about the design of what a web browser should be and they might not of 15 00:00:52,918 --> 00:00:55,610 seemed logical when you first listened to them. 16 00:00:55,610 --> 00:00:59,770 One thing he said was, every image had to pop up in the same screen and mosaic had 17 00:00:59,770 --> 00:01:04,130 one page that replaced the whole thing and you saw the images inline. 18 00:01:04,130 --> 00:01:08,30 Which is not what we want it to do, that's what Robert said. 19 00:01:08,30 --> 00:01:12,720 That might sound illogical today with Farmville and Facebook and, you know, all 20 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:16,990 these things, but you have to understand that in 1990 the network was very 21 00:01:16,990 --> 00:01:21,540 different, even than it was in 1995. It was a very slow network, and if you 22 00:01:21,540 --> 00:01:25,840 put images on every page, they would slow down terribly. 23 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:30,128 And so what that user interface looked like, is you had a document that was the 24 00:01:30,128 --> 00:01:33,880 text, bold, italics, these kinds of things, and when you clicked on 25 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:37,384 something, you got a new page. And then, it would take awhile for this 26 00:01:37,384 --> 00:01:40,972 page to display because the networks were really and truly slow, and the computers 27 00:01:40,972 --> 00:01:44,417 were slow as well. So that might sound to you as an 28 00:01:44,417 --> 00:01:51,112 irrational design choice but in the time of 1990, it was a completely rational 29 00:01:51,112 --> 00:01:54,411 design choice. And one of the things that sort of 30 00:01:54,411 --> 00:01:58,896 changed over time was that became less and less a rational design choice as the 31 00:01:58,896 --> 00:02:03,450 networks became faster, the computers became faster and image became, images 32 00:02:03,450 --> 00:02:07,669 became more a natural thing that the technology was capable of handling. 33 00:02:09,20 --> 00:02:12,314 So continuing our story, we started at Univeristy of Illinois at 34 00:02:12,314 --> 00:02:14,650 Urbana-Champaign. We went to the University of Michigan. 35 00:02:14,650 --> 00:02:19,830 We got the NSF net up in 1990 in CERN creates the world wide web. 36 00:02:19,830 --> 00:02:24,114 The web took a great step forward at Stanford Univeristy when the very first 37 00:02:24,114 --> 00:02:28,580 web server in America came up. Now the fact that's it's the very first 38 00:02:28,580 --> 00:02:30,730 web server is not actually all that important. 39 00:02:30,730 --> 00:02:33,756 The, what was important was what was on that web server. 40 00:02:33,756 --> 00:02:39,346 it was 300,000 physics papers at the SLAC, Stanford Linear Accellerator, 41 00:02:39,346 --> 00:02:45,968 stored in the database on a mainframe and you met and Kayou, Robert Kayou mentioned 42 00:02:45,968 --> 00:02:50,648 this in his conversation About this. Now, what happened was, this is Paul 43 00:02:50,648 --> 00:02:54,552 Kunz, who'll you'll meet in just a moment, he, you know, he said I'll put my 44 00:02:54,552 --> 00:02:57,162 database. The database was well known and people 45 00:02:57,162 --> 00:03:01,60 had many ways of using it, but with the web, it made it much more easily used. 46 00:03:01,60 --> 00:03:04,659 And so, I think in a way, Paul Kunz inadvertantly created the first search 47 00:03:04,659 --> 00:03:09,140 engine, the first reading of something that's mostly content that people read. 48 00:03:09,140 --> 00:03:12,504 Up to that point, Tim Burnersly and Robert were really trying to build 49 00:03:12,504 --> 00:03:16,448 something that allowed collective editing of information stored on servers all 50 00:03:16,448 --> 00:03:19,324 around the world. So let's take a listen to Paul Kunz..