Carolina’s Well Said podcast recently interviewed UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Professor Paul Jones and RENCI Senior Research Software Architect Michael Shoffner about the first radio broadcast streamed over the internet on Nov. 7, 1994. Shoffner was a DJ at WXYC, Carolina’s student radio station, when he and Jones worked together to make the historic broadcast happen.

Click on the player below to listen to the interview, or listen on SoundCloud, Spotify or wherever podcasts are played.

 

Jones was also one of the researchers, scientists, and engineers interviewed by Popular Mechanics for an article exploring how the internet will evolve in the next 50 years. Among Jones’ predictions, “You won’t search anymore, you’ll just ask questions. It will be more like having a conversation.”

Click here to read the full article.

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