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.

(WHTM) — In the beginning, was the ARPANET. In a 1999 article in the New York Times, Taylor described some of the thinking, and frustration, that led to the ARPANET project. In 1966, he had to have ...

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.

A young engineer who would one day become CEO of SAA and one of the fathers of the Internet installed South Africa’s first ...

In 1973, Norway became the first nation outside the US to get online through DARPA’s packet-switched network, the ARPANET. Americans had decided to connect the proto-internet to such a distant country ...

How long have intelligence agencies been keeping tabs on the internet, and what role did these agencies play in creating the internet we use today? For the most part, these kinds of questions have ...

Gordon Crovitz of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page reopens the ancient debate over who invented the Internet with a column Monday calling out the notion that it was the government as an “urban ...

On October 29, 1969, a team of scientists at UCLA sent the first message over ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet. The message was supposed to be “LOGIN,” but the system crashed after the ...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, or ARPANET, was developed in the 60's and 70's by the US Department of Defense as an experiment to create a large network that would survive a nuclear ...