It was mid-1971. Ten scientists met at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Tech Square in Cambridge. They had been given a task by the director of the Pentagon’s Information Processing Techniques ...
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The first message sent over Arpanet was an inauspicious start to what would grow into the internet (Credit: Emmanuel LaFont) On 29 October 1969, two scientists established a connection between ...
Lawrence Roberts, acknowledged as the designer of ARPANET, the precursor of today's internet, passed away on Dec. 26 in his home in Redwood City, Calif. Roberts, 81, died of a heart attack, according ...
On October 29, 1969, at 10:30pm Pacific Time, the first two letters were transmitted over ARPANET. And then it crashed. About an hour later, after some debugging, the first actual remote connection ...
Forty years ago today the first message was sent between computers on the ARPANET. Vinton G. Cerf, who was a principal programmer on the project, reflects on how our online world was shaped by its ...
The untold history of when the internet really started making money. Season two pivots to the dawn of internet entrepreneurship and its broader, irrevocable impact on our culture in the 1990s.
When I visited UCLA’s Boelter Hall last Wednesday, I took the stairs to the third floor, looking for Room 3420. And then I walked right by it. From the hallway, it’s a pretty unassuming place. But ...
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