All In A DayÕs Work
1840 President Martin Van Buren institutes 10-hour day for federal workers. 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone, built with engineer Thomas Watson. 1920s Henry Ford reduces the...
View ArticleAnother Year And The Internet Can Legally Drink
The Internet popped the cork in celebration of its 20th anniversary on New Year's Day. In 1983, the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency Network...
View ArticleThe internet celebrates the Big Four-O
Today, the internet celebrates its fortieth anniversary. Or...
View ArticleSecurity questions part of Internet's growing pains
The explosive growth of the Internet has meant that thousands of people are experiencing the joys of being online for the first time. And with growth, there always comes pain. Relate it to your...
View Article10 things M.I.T. computer scientists have given the world
Celebrating 50 years of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by remembering some of the many ways its faculty, students, researchers and alums have contributed to the...
View ArticleBT ad claims that the Internet was invented in the UK
BT, rather unfortunately for one of the world's largest and oldest telcos, has mistakenly claimed that the UK invented the Internet. In the ad, BT's Openreach division states that "We believe that the...
View ArticleEmail inventor Ray Tomlinson dies
It's a sad day for the Internet: Ray Tomlinson, widely credited with inventing email as we know it, has died from a suspected heart attack on his 75th birthday. In 1971, he established the first...
View ArticleRay Tomlinson, Creator of Email and Saviour of the @ Symbol, Dies
Thank you Ray. I’ll try to achieve Inbox Zero for you today. ......
View ArticleRaymond Tomlinson dies at 74; inventor of modern email
Raymond Tomlinson, the inventor of modern email and a technological leader, has died. Tomlinson died Saturday, the Raytheon Co. said. He was 74. Email existed in a limited capacity before Tomlinson in...
View ArticleThe Untold Story of the Teen Hackers Who Transformed the Early Internet
On October 12th, 1983, Bill Landreth called his friend Chris in Detroit to chat. Chris frantically explained that the FBI had raided his house. “Don’t call me anymore,” Chris said in what would be a...
View ArticleWhy the Internet fell apart today
If you were on the internet on Friday morning, congrats! You were one of a lucky few who maintained their connectivity in the face of a massive, nationwide DDoS attack against part of the Domain Name...
View ArticleWhat the internet looked like in 1973: Tiny map shows the ENTIRE network was...
A tiny map reveals the early beginnings of the Internet. The small piece of paper shows the entire ARPANET in 1973, which consisted of just 42 computers connected to 36 nodes. ......
View ArticleDiscovery Of Map Of The Entire Internet In 1973, Network Comprised Of Just 42...
A very exciting and intriguing discovery has just been made as a map of the entire internet, as it was back in May 1973 at least, has been discovered with a bunch of older papers from the Carnegie...
View ArticleTechdirt's "I Invented Email" gear
Techdirt, a fearless source of excellent technology news and commentary, is being sued for $15M by Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email -- he is represented by Charles Harder, a key...
View ArticleEarly computing pioneer Robert Taylor dies
The technology world just lost one of its most prominent innovators. Robert Taylor, best known as the mastermind of ARPAnet (the internet's precursor), has died at 85. As the director of the US...
View ArticlePinkerton: The U.S.-China Competition: Cyberspace and Outer Space
In our first installment, we noted that in the distant past, China had invented key technologies—for war-fighting and ocean-voyaging—and yet had failed effectively to develop them. So now let’s...
View ArticleTrump’s NAFTA Deal Simply Can’t Solve America’s Manufacturing Problems
A few additional crumbs for labor at a time when most U.S. manufacturing capacity has already been offshored or destroyed by militarization. President Trump and his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Peña...
View ArticleEarly internet pioneer Larry Roberts dies at 81
The internet has lost one of its early architects. Larry Roberts, best known as the program manager for ARPAnet (the internet's precursor), died on December 26th at the age of 81. While he wasn't as...
View ArticleFifty years of the internet Share on Twitter
Leonard Kleinrock Contributor Share on Twitter Leonard Kleinrock is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. When my team of graduate students...
View ArticleEvolution of the internet: Celebrating 50 years since Arpanet
Arpanet carried its first message on October 29, 1969, laying the foundation for today’s networked world. Fifty years later, more than 4 billion people have internet access, and the number of devices...
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