along regional networks, and at some point races through telehouse north.oss the globe to where the video is stored, and this is where it gets really clever. see, sending the whole video in one go, down one route, will likely mean that it will get stuck in traffic and take ages. so, the video is torn apart, broken up, split into little packets, and each one makes its own way back down different routes. and when they start arriving back at your device, they're juggled into the right order. and once enough of the start of the video has arrived, there is your cat as cute as you want it. aw! this is how information spreads across the world. but unfortunately, it's not always the right information. we have a tough problem ahead of us which is to try to help people distinguish good quality information from bad quality information. one of the big problems seems to be that these days we are all locked in our own echo chambers. the information we hear comes from people that we've chosen to listen to. so, as well as democratising information access, the internet seem

this is telehouse north, one of the most important parts of the internet backbone.ondon full of computers, cables, cooling equipment, and sheer geekery. the internet was built on many earlier ideas but the big one happens exactly 50 years ago this week. the work had origins in 1969, when the american defence department, specifically, the advanced research projects agency, decided it needed a network to connect about a dozen university computer systems together in order to promote sharing of information and acceleration of research and artificial intelligence. and so they promoted the design and development of a packet switch network which they call arper net. on october 29, 1969, at 10:30 in the evening, the first message was sent. a computer at the university of california in los angeles sent a word to stanford research institute in san francisco. the word was "log in". although the system crashed before they got to the "".g nevertheless, those two nodes became hundreds and then thousands and then millions of connections. a global network of networks now consists o

this is telehouse north, one of the most important parts of the internet backbone.our buildings here in london full of computers, cables, cooling equipment, and sheer geekery. the internet was built on many earlier ideas, but the big one happened exactly 50 years ago this week. the work had origins in 1969 when the american defense department, specifically the defense advanced research projects agency, decided that it needed a network to connect about a dozen university computer systems together in order to promote sharing of information and acceleration of research in artificial intelligence. and so they promoted the design and development of a packet switch network which they called arpanet. on october 29th 1969 at 10:30pm in the evening, the first message was sent over arpanet. a computer at the university of california in los angeles sent a word to stanford research institute in san francisco. the word was "login". although the system crashed before they got to the g. nevertheless, those two nodes became hundreds and then thousands and then millions of connectio

the video shoots out of your device, along regional networks, and at some point races through telehouse northand off across the globe to where the video is stored. and this is where is gets really clever. see, sending the whole video in one go down one route will likely mean that it will get stuck in traffic and take ages. so the video is torn apart, broken up, split into little packets, and each one makes its own way back down different routes. and when they start arriving back at your device, they're juggled into the right order. and once enough of the start of the video has arrived, there is your cat, as cute as you want it. ah! my name is vint cerf. i am vice president and chief internet evangelist at google, but some people know me as one of the co—inventors of the internet. first of all, the good part. as the world wide web emerged, there was this enormous desire in the general population that had access to the internet to share information that they knew. and the world wide web was a tremendous facilitating means by which this could be done. then in the 20005, we start to see the arriv

this is telehouse north, one of the most important parts of the internet backbone.ling equipment, and sheer geekery. the internet was built on many earlier ideas, but the big one happened exactly 50 years ago this week. the work had origins in 1969 when the american defense department — specifically the defense advanced research projects agency — decided that it needed a network to connect about a dozen university computer systems together in order to promote sharing of information and acceleration of research and artificial intelligence. and so, they promoted the design and development of a packet switch network which they called arpanet. 0n 0ctober29,1969, at 10:30 in the evening, the first message was sent over arpanet. a computer at the university of california in los angeles sent a word to stanford research institute in san francisco. the word was "login" — although the system crashed before they got to the g. nevertheless, those two nodes became hundreds, and then thousands, and then millions of connections. a global network of networks now consists of over 1.

this is telehouse north, one of the most important parts of the internet backbone. and acceleration of research and artificial intelligence. and so, they promoted the design and development of a packet switch network which they call arpanet. 0n 0ctober29,1969, at 10:30 in the evening, the first message was sent. —— the first message was sent over arpanet. a computer at the university of california in los angeles sent a word to stanford research institute in san francisco. the word was "login" — although the system crashed before they got to the g. nevertheless, those two nodes became hundreds and then thousands and then millions of connections. a global network of networks now consists of over 1.2 million kilometres of submarine cables, sometimes laid as deep as mount everest is high. these connect massive server buildings and immeasurably more smaller cables connect those to individual computers. an interconnected network that was named the internet. it‘s important to understand that the internet is not the world wide web. the web is a great invention — it‘s the wa