Fifty years ago today, the first permanent link between a computer at UCLA and at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) was formed. It was the first connection of ARPANET, which would grow into a ...

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 ...

On October 29, 1969, the first successful message was sent over ARPANET. UCLA student Charley Kline transmitted from an SDS Sigma 7 computer to an SDS 940 machine at the Stanford Research Institute.

The internet has become the most prevalent communications technology the world has ever seen. Though there are more fixed and mobile telephone connections, even they use internet technology in their ...

However the Arpanet concept included a vital decision on how the network would function: it sharply distinguished and separated the technology and medium that would carry the communications (satellite ...

In 1966 IBM mainframes could only connect to other IBM mainframes, Burroughs only to other Burroughs, etc. Beginning in 1967 the US Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) office ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. ICANN Board Chairman Steve Crocker recalls his work on ARPANET, a military network that helped lay the foundation ...

The National Science Foundation has tapped BBN Technologies to build and manage the GENI project, intended as a proving ground for next-generation network technologies. For BBN, this is a bit of a ...

Leonard Kleinrock cannot be confined. I spoke to him earlier this year for a feature on delay-tolerant networks, but it quickly became clear that there was a lot more to talk about. The DTN feature - ...

Paul Hoffman, director of the VPN Consortium and an IETF regular, passes along this link to a 30-minute documentary on the ARPAnet produced in 1972. It’s an interesting trip down memory lane — grainy ...