Short Description
“History of the internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions fromtime-sharing to file-sharing, from arpanet to internet.
The clip shows a brief overview of this history and shall animate to go on discovering the history of the internet. The history is told with help of the PICOL icons, which are also a part of my diploma. The icons are available for free on picol.org in the size 32×32 pixel. The “History of the Internet” is about to break the mark of 2 million views on YouTube.
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Credits
Director, Animator, Design & Script – Melih Bilgil
Voice over – Steve Taylor
Music – Telekaster
Translation – Karla Vesenmayer
Scientific Managment – Prof. Philipp Pape
University – University of Applied Sciences Mainz
Thanks to – Barbara Bittmann, Johannes Schatz
Some articles on this clip
- TIME Magazine – A Brief History of the Internet
- Fontblog – Die Geschichte des Internets in 8 Minuten
- ReadWriteWeb – Video: History of the Internet
- Netzpolitik – Animation: Die Geschichte des Internets
- Basic Thinking – Wie aus dem Inter-Net das Internet wurde
- DE:BUG – Die Geschichte des Internet als Film
- 8ninths – PICOL – The Helvetica of Icons?
- FHM Spain – ¡La historia de Internet en 8 minutos!
References
Bunz, Mercedes – Vom Speichern zum Verteilen: Die Geschichte des Internet
Leiner, Barry M.; Cerf, Vinton G.; Clark, David D.; Kahn, Robert E.; Kleinrock, Leonard; Lynch, Daniel C.; Postel, Jon; Roberts, Larry G.; Wolff, Stephen, A brief history of the Internet, Internet Society, 2003
Inspiration
- Otto Neurath and Gerd Arntz, who created ISOTYPE, see also www.vknn.at/neurath
- AIGA passenger/pedestrian symbols
- The “desktop metaphor” by Larry Tesler & Tim Mott
More interesting resources on networks, communication and signs
- Computer Chronicles; The internet, 1993
- Ebersbach, Anja; Glaser, Markus; Heigl, Richard, Social Web, UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, 2008
- Eco, Umberto, Zeichen. Einführung in den Begriff und seine Geschichte, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1977
- Frutiger, Adrian, Der Mensch und seine Zeichen, Marix Verlag, 2006
- Hartmann, Frank; Bauer, Erwin K., Otto Neurath Visualisierungen, Facultas Verlags- und Buchhandel AG, 2006
- Medosch, Armin, Isotype im WWW, Heise Zeitschriften Verlag, 1997
- Mijksenaar, Paul, Visual Function – An Introduction to Information Design, Princeton Architectural Press, 1997
- Moggridge, Bill, Designing Interactions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
- Neurath, Otto, International Picture Language, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1936
- Ramge, Thomas, Mein Computer versteht mich!, in: BrandEins Ausgabe: Zu viel, 2007, S.38-43
- Rheingold, Howard, Smart Mobs, Basic Books, 2002