# The Internet Show (KCET-PBS)

Broadcast during a 1994 fundraising drive at KCET Los Angeles, "The Internet Show (Driver's Education for the Information Superhighway)"is a video introduction to the various aspects of The Internet. It frequently cuts back to the fundraising event (with by-the-phones operators behind the speakers). Brought by FTP Software of Andover, Massachusetts and COMPAQ. Sequences in The Internet Show "Driver's Education for the Information Superhighway": - Introduction Roll - Host introduction in converible: Gina Smith and John Levine - Hosted at Fondren Library at Rice University - Overview of what Computer Networks are, and Basic Internet Aspects - Examples: Using the Internet to find Paris Metro stops, E-mail to Tokyo - Example: Displaying Artworks and Comics, Job Listings, For Sale Sites - Definition: Internaut, Cyberspace - History of the Internet Overview (ARPA, Shift to NSF, Internet Growth) - Packet Switching Overview (Utilizing Barbershop Quartet) - Electronic Mail Introduction and Overview - Format of Electronic-Mail Addresses (Domain names and @ construction) - Demonstration of Electronic Mail client use - Variety of client types (text versus graphics/color) - Continued Electronic Mail client use (conversation and destination) - STORY: Use of Internet at Junior-Senior High School in Harts, West Virginia - Interviews with Teachers, Students, School of Medicine Employees - FUNDRAISING BREAK - Usenet and Newsgroups Introduction - Early demonstration of responding to a…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1994
- By: John Levine and Gina Smith
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/The_Internet_Show_KCET_PBS_1994)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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