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 ...

50 years after the birth of the internet's precursor, Arpanet, there are more internet-connected devices than people in the world, and traffic is measured in exabytes. Arpanet carried its first ...

In internet history, credit for the initial concept that developed into the World Wide Web is typically given to Leonard Kleinrock. In 1961, he wrote about ARPANET, the predecessor of the internet, in ...

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 first-ever computer-to-computer link was established on ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), the precursor to the Internet, on October 29, 1969. Originally funded by ARPA (Advanced ...

In March 1982, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Communications, Command, Control, and Intelligence Richard DeLauer circulated an official memorandum essentially declaring the TCP/IP protocol as ...

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 ...