A documentation on the early internet in 1972!

von | Mrz 19, 2006 | Blog, Digital Culture

1972 was a very special year: it was the year I was born. (Just kidding…)

It is, however, the year in which Steven King produced the documentary Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing.

A 1972 documentary on ARPAnet, the early internet. A very interesting look at the beginnings of what is now a huge part of most of our lives.

This clip is fascinating, considering it’s 30 years old!

(Now you can embed Google video into your site, same as with YouTube.)

Links & News – 17. March

von | Mrz 17, 2006 | Blog, Digital Culture, Digital Marketing, Digital News

Steve Rubel points twice to a Forrester Research:

I guess this report is really worth getting.

Some other interesting stuff:

A lot of fun on its way until the worldcup starts…

von | Mrz 16, 2006 | Ad News, Blog, Digital Marketing, Digital News, Online Advertising

A highly amusing Microsite by Pepsi for the upcoming worldcup in Germany: mydadada.com

The main feature of the site is a video with some of the top footballers (ronaldo, ronaldinho, beckham) playing football against a bunch of bavarian (!) – not German – fellows. People outside Germany might not be aware of this: There is more to Germany, than just Bavaria. But I guess, people outside Germany don’t care about this (and why should they, admittingly).

The underlying song (da, da, da) is one of the most famous German songs – however, it is almost 20 years old. Question is: is it Pepsi, or us Germans, who couldn’t do any better than that?

A feature I found quite funny: „have your favourite German call“ – you can select a sentence spoken in a heavy German accent and then send this audio to a mobile phone of a friend of yours! It didn’t work for me, I guess it just works in the US.


I guess we’ll see a lot more of this in the next 3 months. Just wait what’ll happen, once the guys from England start „slagging the krauts“.

(thanks, Adland.)