Before the Internet became a worldwide network, it existed as an intranet between the University of Utah and three research centers in California. Called ARPANET, the project was commissioned by the ...

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 ...

Oct. 29 (UPI) --Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of a milestone event that helped shape the modern Internet -- the first-ever computer linkup and the first electronic message sent over the U.S.

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.

This is the first known spam e-mail, from 1978. It was sent by Gary Thuerk, a Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) employee, to everyone on the ARPANET, predecessor of the Internet. ARPANET, which stood for ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Monica Nickelsburg on Nov 21, 2016 at 2:15 pm November 21, 2016 at 2 ...

The world would be a very different place without the internet. The shared space of GIFs, memes and social media was actually born in 1969. It wasn’t the Internet as we know it, but the first computer ...

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 ...

This talk provides a history of the reasons for and the technology of the Internet. It also presents some of the reasons that the Internet has had such an impact and some of the challenges that may ...

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