John Sokol | |
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Developed Digital Audio Record and Playback hardware for the RadioShack TRS80 Color Computer, Apple II, IBM PC, Apple Lisa, and Macintosh, Commodore Pet and C64 in the early 80's while still in High School.
Posted some of the earilest Digital Audio files to BBS's and Recorded a number of Audio Clips that became almost famous, the Meep Meep sound for the Mac, "I am sorry Dave" and "All my systems are functioning Perfectly" from 2001 a Space Odyssey that many people would play on there computers.
Sold some the first hand made custom electronic sampler / pitch shifters based on the C64 sold in to New York City from 1982 to 1985. Many of the audio clips from that found there way in to early Hip Hop music albums.
Inventor of the Audio Byte, first commercial audio device for the PC in 1987 sold by Zebra Research Inc. [1]
Invented the first handheld oscilloscope in 1985 but never filed patents before presenting the prototype to Fluke and Tektronix.
The first Streaming Audio and First Streaming Video on the Internet 1989-1990. Sun Microsystems - Scott McNealy] First Global Internet Stream December 1992
Originally registered WellFargo.com while working there in 1992 and gave a presentation on the concept of Internet Banking which was rejected that same year.
Developed and tested theories of Memetic engineering with Leveious Rolando, for product marketing and using early Internet technology to track and study meme propagation and properties, 1993.
First CDN (See Netsys, SDSN)
Invented the first Erasure code and coined the term with Aryeh Friedman 1995.
Did the first Internet video streaming for Sun Microsystems in 1992. "video".
Inventor of the Livecam The first Internet Streaming video product in 1994. The Livecam become the dominant video streaming technology in the Adult industry. It was acquired by Digital Video Technology Inc (DVT) that was later acquired by DVBS Inc. (Digital Video Broadcast systems) http://www.livecamserver.com/ [2] [3]
Founder of Netsys Inc, that made the first Internet CDN branded SDSN in 1994.
Did the first large scale Internet video streaming Arthur C. Clarke Cybercasts
CyberCast of Arthur C. Clarke] Live from Sri Lanka to UIUC near Chicago. Over 3000 live viewer of the event and the video stream from Sri Lanka to Chicago, the main stream from Sri Lanka was done using the Livecam over SPAK protocol. Outbound steaming with done using several streaming technologies. Livecam, Xing Streamworks, Vosaic, Real Audio. [4] [5]
"A Day on Europa" at Nasa/JPL Caltech [6]
American Film Institute in Los Angeles with Tom Hanks and Bill Anders (Apollo 8 astronaut). [7]
The owner of videotechnology.com writing articles on video since 2002.
Worked on the release of 386BSD the first open source Unix from 1987 to 1992. [8]
Attended the DebConf6 (Debian Conference 2006) as a guest. Left the conference early as a principled stand, when Debian member Ted Walther was mistreated. [9] [10]
John Sokol's Blog: AfterBurner Web Server
RTelnet Reverse telnet.
RTelnet is a reverse Telnet, it's incredibly useful to get behind firewalls and NAT's or routers running IP masquerading very useful for remotely admin someones PC remotely when they don't know how to do anything like opening their firewall.
ViVi VIrtual VIdeo Driver in Linux 2.6.17 and above
The VIVI driver; a great starting point for V4L2 driver writers
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John Sokol | |
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![]() John Sokol at SVLUG 2011 |
Developed Digital Audio Record and Playback hardware for the RadioShack TRS80 Color Computer, Apple II, IBM PC, Apple Lisa, and Macintosh, Commodore Pet and C64 in the early 80's while still in High School.
Posted some of the earilest Digital Audio files to BBS's and Recorded a number of Audio Clips that became almost famous, the Meep Meep sound for the Mac, "I am sorry Dave" and "All my systems are functioning Perfectly" from 2001 a Space Odyssey that many people would play on there computers.
Sold some the first hand made custom electronic sampler / pitch shifters based on the C64 sold in to New York City from 1982 to 1985. Many of the audio clips from that found there way in to early Hip Hop music albums.
Inventor of the Audio Byte, first commercial audio device for the PC in 1987 sold by Zebra Research Inc. [1]
Invented the first handheld oscilloscope in 1985 but never filed patents before presenting the prototype to Fluke and Tektronix.
The first Streaming Audio and First Streaming Video on the Internet 1989-1990. Sun Microsystems - Scott McNealy] First Global Internet Stream December 1992
Originally registered WellFargo.com while working there in 1992 and gave a presentation on the concept of Internet Banking which was rejected that same year.
Developed and tested theories of Memetic engineering with Leveious Rolando, for product marketing and using early Internet technology to track and study meme propagation and properties, 1993.
First CDN (See Netsys, SDSN)
Invented the first Erasure code and coined the term with Aryeh Friedman 1995.
Did the first Internet video streaming for Sun Microsystems in 1992. "video".
Inventor of the Livecam The first Internet Streaming video product in 1994. The Livecam become the dominant video streaming technology in the Adult industry. It was acquired by Digital Video Technology Inc (DVT) that was later acquired by DVBS Inc. (Digital Video Broadcast systems) http://www.livecamserver.com/ [2] [3]
Founder of Netsys Inc, that made the first Internet CDN branded SDSN in 1994.
Did the first large scale Internet video streaming Arthur C. Clarke Cybercasts
CyberCast of Arthur C. Clarke] Live from Sri Lanka to UIUC near Chicago. Over 3000 live viewer of the event and the video stream from Sri Lanka to Chicago, the main stream from Sri Lanka was done using the Livecam over SPAK protocol. Outbound steaming with done using several streaming technologies. Livecam, Xing Streamworks, Vosaic, Real Audio. [4] [5]
"A Day on Europa" at Nasa/JPL Caltech [6]
American Film Institute in Los Angeles with Tom Hanks and Bill Anders (Apollo 8 astronaut). [7]
The owner of videotechnology.com writing articles on video since 2002.
Worked on the release of 386BSD the first open source Unix from 1987 to 1992. [8]
Attended the DebConf6 (Debian Conference 2006) as a guest. Left the conference early as a principled stand, when Debian member Ted Walther was mistreated. [9] [10]
John Sokol's Blog: AfterBurner Web Server
RTelnet Reverse telnet.
RTelnet is a reverse Telnet, it's incredibly useful to get behind firewalls and NAT's or routers running IP masquerading very useful for remotely admin someones PC remotely when they don't know how to do anything like opening their firewall.
ViVi VIrtual VIdeo Driver in Linux 2.6.17 and above
The VIVI driver; a great starting point for V4L2 driver writers
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