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Packet switching inventor Paul Baran dies aged 84

...MIT and the Darpa US defence research agency to create what became Arpanet, the world's first operational packet switching network and a forerunner to... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Ben Woods
Exhibition charts the history of computing

Exhibition charts the history of computing

...Called an Interface Message Processor (1969), it was the interface between the Arpanet, the internet's predecessor, and a computer connected to the network. Photo... Read more

26 January, 2011 by Scott Ard

What got you interested in technology? IT's rich and famous share their memories

From father of the internet Vint Cerf to visionary sci-fi author William Gibson, the hardware that got IT's hall of fame started... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

The History of the iPhone gets animated

...bit wonky, and the depiction of the first four nodes of the Arpanet have CRT monitors, at a time when teletypes were the standard interface... Read more

23 September, 2011

More about Project Gutenberg's Michael Hart, RIP

...accurately, forty years ago, he was the first information provider on the ARPAnet, before the internet even existed. And unlike many digital developers, he wasn... Read more

14 September, 2011
Heroic tech: Ten awe-inspiring bits of kit

Heroic tech: Ten awe-inspiring bits of kit

...at 40Gbps. By contrast, back in 1969 the first core routers on Arpanet had links of up to 56Kbps. Things have moved on somewhat. Photo... Read more

16 November, 2010 by Matthew Broersma
GCHQ pioneers on birth of public key crypto

GCHQ pioneers on birth of public key crypto

...an open internet architecture for CERN, its adaptation and adoption for the Arpanet for networking with universities, and then fibre-optic and satellite communications permitting... Read more

26 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner
PipClock 1.3

PipClock 1.3

...have to wait until the light illuminates the wasteland Moon phase calculator Arpanet connection to receive important messages broadcasted by the Federal Government from its... Read more

11 February, 2012
Vehicular Networks and the Future of the Mobile Internet

Vehicular Networks and the Future of the Mobile Internet

...portability. Scarcity of spectrum was not an issue, in contrast with the ARPANET quest to utilize those 50 kbps Telpak trunks more efficiently. Today, the... Read more

5 January, 2011
eBook: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet 3.6

eBook: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet 3.6

...Genre: Computer Technology Pages: 47 Description: In the beginning there was the ARPAnet, a wide area experimental network connecting hosts and terminal servers together. Procedures... Read more

26 August, 2010
Driving the web revolution: The 'Internet Van'

Driving the web revolution: The 'Internet Van'

...to send data over three separate networks in use at the time: Arpanet, satellite, and packet radio. The van sent digital information over a packet... Read more

9 November, 2007 by ZDNet UK
<endeca_term>Arpanet</endeca_term> creator aims to boost internet speeds

Arpanet creator aims to boost internet speeds

When Larry Roberts was overseeing the building of the Arpanet, the precursor to today's internet, he and his team were looking... Read more

7 August, 2007 by Elinor Mills

Quarter of world online as internet turns 40

...between two computers located 400 miles apart. The network, known as the Arpanet after it was commissioned by the US Department of Defense's Advanced... Read more

29 October, 2009 by Carly Newman
Ten key moments that shaped IT

Ten key moments that shaped IT

...these programs can keep on keeping on. 2. The development of the Arpanet, 1969It is undeniable that the Arpanet was the predecessor of the modern... Read more

2 October, 2009 by Jack Wallen

Email experts search for 'less trusting' protocol

SMTP, the protocol that handles email, was designed for a time when Internet correspondence flowed mostly between academics rather than from spam merchants Read more

1 August, 2003 by Paul Festa

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