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. The “History of the Internet” is about to break the mark of 3.5 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