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This is the untold history of how the internet almost didn’t
happen. It’s an ode to fathers and daughters. And it’s a tale about
the origins of the man-computer symbiosis that’s still profoundly
relevant to our society today. Host Christine Haughney Dare-Bryan,
an editor-at-large at Inc., is a James Beard Award-winning
journalist who has worked for NBC News as well as three of the
nation’s largest newspapers, and who created the Emmy-nominated
Netflix series Rotten. Dare-Bryan’s connection to the story is
deeply personal—her father, Joseph Haughney, was one of the
internet’s founding fathers. Dare-Bryan spent 10 months traveling
the nation interviewing these iconic founders about their work, and
how it all led to the economy—and society—we inhabit today. In this
six-episode series, she explores the invention, the contention, the
bragging, the fighting, and the decisions that have led to our
digital life. Just as the book Hamilton explored the founding
fathers of democracy in the United States, this project explores
the founding fathers of the internet and how their high-stakes
battles over ownership, internet privacy, internet protocols, and
internet access mirror what we face today. By looking to the past,
Computer Freaks dives into modern debates: Could we have prevented
online harm from the start? What is the balance between free speech
and online content moderation? How much human work should be
delegated to technology and A.I.? And what direction should this
growing labyrinthine network of computers take? The narrative
behind Computer Freaks stretches from after World War II through
the 1980s, and up to the consequences we face from this technology
today. During that early period, the federal government was funding
the first workable prototype of the internet, called the Arpanet,
but fighting with researchers at MIT about just how far access to
the Arpanet should extend. Computer Freaks tells the dramatic,
untold history of the internet straight from the mouths of its
pioneering inventors: Len Kleinrock, Robert Kahn, Charley Kline,
Steve Crocker, Vinton Cerf, and Bob Metcalfe, among many others.
Exclusive interviews uncover hidden stories found nowhere else
about the Arpanet, online harm, hacking, authentication,
cybersecurity, Ethernet, TCP IP, packet switching, queuing theory,
and the early contributions of women in tech. And, perhaps most
important, this series is a love letter from a daughter to an aging
father and the world-changing legacy he will leave behind.
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