There is an interesting thread* over at Interesting People, on NSF and the Birth of the Internet. The first message in the thread sparked a lot of responses, mainly because the NSF video on the Birth of the Internet missed out a lot of contributions along the timeline.
Update: ycor writes an interesting commentary in Greek.
[*] – To read the whole thread you need to scroll down the thread index in order to view all the subthreads that emerged. Alternatively you can search via the markmail.org interface.
Managing organized complexity 