Coming soon - CA*Net3
The Story
A groundbreaking fibre optic network promises mind-boggling data speeds for researchers.
Program: Canada at Five
Broadcast Date: Aug. 25, 1998
Guest(s): John Manley, Brian McFadden
Reporter: Dave McKie
Duration: 1:35
Inventing the Internet Age more
Ban the Internet!
The internet has finally come of age. Time to get rid of it.
The men who invented the web
Tim Berners-Lee and other internet pioneers talk about how the World Wide Web was born.
Year of the Internet
Quirks & Quarks point to the World Wide Web and Java as the most important changes in technology.
The internet goes multimedia
Forget numbers and letters - now you can get music and video on the web!
Free for all on the Internet in 1994
Freenet advocates in Toronto and Winnipeg discuss the movement to provide free internet access to all Canadians.
Peter Gzowski learns to surf the Internet
Internet users patiently explain what the internet is good for - starting with gardening.
Making friends and influencing people online
Three avid internet users turn to the web: one to make money, one to find friends, one to fight fascism.
A computer network called ‘Internet’
Millions log on to a computer system called "Internet."
Building a faster information highway
Work begins on CANARIE, successor to CA*Net.
Computer hackers tap into electronic bulletin boards
Electronic trespassing is born.
Telidon - ‘knowledge at your fingertips!’
A Canadian interactive TV system is heralded as the next big thing in communications.
Interactive networks disappoint
Max Allen says the data processing revolution has invaded our privacy and merely turned us into customers.
Telidon, information and e-mail
Telidon may one day replace daily newspapers and Canada Post.
Telidon, the two-way television
A new interactive TV system will let users access information and make purchases.
Computers beyond computing
Hypertext pioneer Ted Nelson says that one day computers won't be mere number crunchers, but a global library.
Fighting the future of the Internet
The Canadian government wants a national computer network, but the Canadian people want nothing to do with it.
Envisioning a global computer network
Graham Spry predicts that networked computers will change the world.
SHARE conference on computer networking
Computer users meet to discuss the idea of a centralized computer with a memory bank that can serve widely scattered…