The first message sent over Arpanet was an inauspicious start to what would grow into the internet (Credit: Emmanuel LaFont) ...

Computers cost tens or even hundreds of thousands ... They established a system called ARPAnet, which had four main hubs: the Universities of California in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, the ...

ARPANET was eventually commercialized as the ... "In the early '80s, I had three computers for work given to me by IBM, AT&T, and Sperry Rand so I could demonstrate our tape drives at conferences ...

Discover the historic moment when scientists sent the first ARPANET message, LO, marking the dawn of the internet age.

While the first computer virus (Creeper) was released on the ARPANET as a harmless experiment, the first computer virus to be released in the wild didn't have malicious intent either. Called ...

If you’re curious about what was invented the year you were born, RS Components compiled a fascinating list, which we’re ...

I think, sort of, what made DARPA’s reputation was computer networking. DARPA created the ARPANET, which was the first network of computers, which was later transitioned to the civilian internet.

Instead, we had ARPANET, a rudimentary yet functional connection ... that performed useful tasks instead of messing up your ...

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 ...

To solve this problem, ARPA created a network of computers, which they called ARPANET. Realising how useful ARPANET was, other organisations built their own networks. However, these individual ...

In 1969 ARPA began to focus on communications technology, including computer networks ... at these far-flung campuses became the ARPAnet. In the early 1980s, local area networks (LAN) were ...

This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Can you describe the computers that enabled Arpanet? Were these massive, noisy machines? Kline: They were small computers – by standards of ...