Michael Parker

Michael Parker

@astarix.bsky.social

ex-journalist, current director of operations for @uk.theconversation.com I don't actually wear glasses (yet)

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Michael Parker
@astarix.bsky.social

So glad to have published this years after Peter wrote it for me, and 5 years to the day since he died. Gracious and full of interesting tales the couple of times we met, he invited me to his Marconi awarding where I met Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn and other luminaries theconversation.com/articles-45404

theconversation.comHow Britain got its first internet connection – by the late pioneer who made it happenPeter Kirstein had to overcome various hurdles to connect the UK to the internet, including intransigent governments, dismissive industry and the taxman.
Michael Parker
@astarix.bsky.social

What strikes me from Peter's account and others like Cerf's from 1993 is the importance of not so much the technical aspects as that of like-minded people who believed what was possible striving to overcome all the usual blocks of bureaucracy and funding and time www.researchgate.net/publication/...

researchgate.net(PDF) How the Internet came to bePDF | On Jan 1, 1993, V Cerf published How the Internet came to be | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

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