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 ...

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 ...

The computer scientists had intended to type LOGIN ... that name was not coined for another five years. It was called Arpanet, for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, and was developed ...

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 ...

Led by Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA's professor of computer science at that time, the team launched ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet. The message they sent to the Stanford Research ...

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 ...