netzooid

Justin Stepka pointed to this historic documentary on ARPAnet on his blog a couple days ago. Its really interesting to hear as you realize that some ideas have been around for a long time. If you look closely you can ever the beginnings of Service Oriented Architecture:

…the correlation, the coordination of the activity, is essentially right there in the computer network itself. This is obviously going to make a tremendous difference in how we plan, organize, and execute almost everything of intellectual consequence. [12:00]

…Stanford…sees the network as a multilevel experiment in resource sharing where the resources available are people, computers, data. [18:00]

…various computer centers would presumably become expert in some area and provide some kind of resource that be useful to all the others and they could concentrate on it. They wouldn’t have to cut accross the whole board and spread out their efforts among many different types of programs. [19:00]

It reminds me of a post from Eric Newcomer that comments that vendor suspicion still runs high for SOA and web services. I think that is partly because a lot of people don’t understand how old SOA is and how webservices are just another step on our attempt to approach it. This is a journey which started a long time ago and which has a long path ahead of it yet.

This entry was posted on Sunday, March 19th, 2006 at 1:34 pm and is filed under Random.