Old days... 
http://www.snotr.com/video/14338/In_Honor_Of_The_Internet_Turning_45_Today__Here_Is_Its_First_Router
You'll probably love this:
  A Conversation with Steve Crocker (Chairman, ICANN, author RFC #1,
  etc) and Leonard Kleinrock (in the video linked above) a couple of
  weeks ago:
    http://la51.icann.org/en/schedule/mon-crocker-kleinrock
I was there, it was fun.
Or as Abraham Lincoln would say:
  For people who like this sort of thing this is probably the sort of
  thing they will like.
Except, it's the ARPANET that's 45 years old, and the video of is an IMP.
Miles Fidelman