We take a look at how your PC may very likely have its own compliance problems to deal with in the year 2000. While many understand that very big and very old computing systems might be in trouble, many are unaware that even your relatively new hardware, operating system, software applications and data files can be affected.
Just about everyone has heard about the Y2K problem by now. Robert Kahn, former found of ARPA, and Carl Malamud, author of "Exploring the Internet". Guests include Brendan Kehoe, author of "Zen and the Art of the Internet", Howard Rheingold, author of "The Virtual Community", Dr. Also featured is a visit to the former Bell Labs in New Jersey (now Bellcore) for demonstrations of internet based teleconferencing, video on demand, ISDN, and optical network technology a preview of the World Wide Web as used at NASA a visit to where it all began, ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency in Virgnia and a look at the Internet Multicasting Service in Washington, the first Internet radio station. This program looks at the earliest stages of the Internet including Aladdin Systems SITComm, a Macintosh communications program for Internet access, and the WELL (Whole Earth Lectronic Link), an early online community.
It was being called the Information Superhighway then. It wasn't quite the World Wide Web yet, but everybody started hearing about this thing called "the Internet" in 1993.
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