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Season 1
Vint Cerf Steve Case and Ed Snowden -- internet insiders reveal its hidden past and startling present.
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  1. S1 E1 - Connecting To The Future

    October 19, 2016
    52min
    13+
    Host Derek Muller escorts us to the physical heart of the Internet describes the very first message sent by UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock and demonstrates how Internet co-creators Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn devised a language that gave birth to the Internet as we know it.
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  2. S1 E2 - Man Vs. Machine

    October 19, 2016
    55min
    7+
    We peer inside "The Internet of Things" and reveal how web advertising search engines and 24/7 surveillance have transformed our lives. In the words of Edward Snowden: "TV is a medium you watch. The Internet is a medium that watches you as you watch it."
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  3. S1 E3 - Guardians Of The Web

    October 19, 2016
    52min
    13+
    Muller introduces viewers to “white hat” hackers the U.S. Secret Service’s cybercrime division including West Point soldiers all of whom are working to protect us from the risks associated with persistent connectivity as the Web transitions from a medium to a utility on par with electricity.
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