ARPANET’s coming out party: when the Internet first took center stage Forty years ago the founders of the Internet had a revelation.

Today marks 50 years since ARPANET carried its very first message, between two computers at UCLA and Stanford. While perhaps unremarked at the time - only ‘LO’ was transmitted instead of ‘LOGIN’ ...

As we developed the communications protocols for the Arpanet, we discovered problems, redesigned and improved the protocols and learned many lessons that carried over to the Internet.

The ARPANET made its first host-to-host connection on October 29, 1969 and from there slowly grew into a behemoth, laying the groundwork for our modern internet. The good folks over at Smithsonian ...

July 8 has been a day marked by transformative events that have shaped the course of history across the globe.Arguably the most influential event associated ...

Here’s the story of the creation of ARPANET, the groundbreaking precursor to the internet—as told by the people who were there.

Meet the Internet’s Founding Fathers They were there at the very beginning, where the wires met the web, and the debate over who should use the internet was getting started.

Therefore, ARPANET was broken into the networks: MILNET (sites carrying non-classified military information) and ARPANET (sites for the computer research community).

When the computer science department of Carnegie Mellon University expanded in the 1970s, this created a massive issue for certain individuals who now found that they had to walk quite a distance t… ...

ARPANET: The Dawn of the Internet It all started in 1969. At that time, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), which received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), formed the ...

Dr. Mills was among the inner circle of computer scientists who from the 1960s through the ’90s developed Arpanet, a relatively small network of linked computers located at academic and research ...