Documentary on the state of the Internet in 1972

Here's a truly fascinating piece of "paleo-nerd memorabilia" from Boing-Boing. It is a documentary, circa 1972, called "Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing".

It features interviews with visionary geeks from MIT, DARPA, BBN, and elsewhere and provides some background on the creation of a little thing called the ARPA-net.

You know the ARPA-net as today's Internet.

It's 30 minutes of grainy footage of proto-geeks talking about things we now take for granted. However, try to remember (if you can) how you paid your bills and got your driving directions in 1972, then check it out.

These guys were geniuses in every sense of the word.