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Xerox: Uh, We Didn’t Invent the Internet
Who invented the Internet? Wall Street Journal columnist L. Gordon Crovitz took a stab at this question on Monday and settled on Xerox -- the copier company whose research and development group, Xerox...
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Networks | Your Website Comes From 1,000 Places. Here’s How to Map Them
Over the past decade, the business of loading a webpage has become devilishly complicated. Websites are now really a cocktail of services delivered by advertising networks, authentication services,...
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History | Bob Kahn, the Bread Truck, and the Internet’s First Communion
The world's first internet transmission occurred on October 29, 1969. At least, that's what some people believe. Others say that it happened more than eight years later, when a repurposed delivery van...
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Networks | Leonard Kleinrock, the TX-2 and the Seeds of the Internet
Larry Roberts calls himself "the founder of the internet" -- and for good reason -- but he was building on the work of Leonard Kleinrock.
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HTTP 418. To most highway drivers, it looks like a random collection of characters -- the kind of mud-spattered jumble you'd see on any car. But to Phil Dokas, it's a really good joke. And he's right....
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Data Centers | Animation: Hurricane Sandy Wipes Out 10 Percent of New York’s...
Hurricane Sandy has been a nightmare. It destroyed homes, knocked out power, flooded the New York City Subway, and wiped out about a quarter of the cellphone towers between Virginia and Massachusetts....
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Networks | The 61 Countries a Mad Despot Could Instantly Unplug From the...
It's becoming the trademark move of failing regimes: silence your critics and cripple their communications by cutting off the internet. Libya did it. Egypt too. And last week, Syria pulled the plug on...
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Networks | How the Queen of England Beat Everyone to the Internet
Peter Kirstein is the man who put the Queen of England on the internet. In 1976.
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Networks | Google Spreads Its Superspeed Internet Into New Playground
Google Fiber began as a shaming exercise. The company would build an ultra-high-speed fiber network in one lucky city, and the rest of the country's internet providers would be forced to follow suit....
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History | Tech Time Warp of the Week: Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet,...
The year is 1974, and Arthur C. Clarke is standing inside one of those cavernous computer centers that held the massive machines of the day.
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Jaron Lanier: The Internet Is the Road That Precedes a Lemonade Stand
The wide adoption of transformative connecting technology should create a middle-class wealth boom, as happened when the Interstate Highway System gave rise to a world of new jobs. Instead we’ve seen...
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How the Large Hadron Collider Will Bring the Internet to Everything
THE INTERNET OF THINGS Open Garden Image: CERN When the Large Hadron Collider went online in 2009, most scientists saw it as an unprecedented opportunity to conduct experiments involving the building...
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Finally, the Underwater Wireless Modem We’ve All Been Waiting For
Researchers at the University at Buffalo have floated their first wireless internet modems, designed for underwater use. They're gigantic, slow, and noisy, but they could be a step toward making...
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Tech Time Warp of the Week: Lasers Unlimited and Its Sequel, 1969-1979
It begins with a clip from the 1953 film version of War of Worlds, where flying alien spacecraft blow things up with brightly colored beams of light. Then we hear the voice of someone who sounds...
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Tech Time Warp of the Week: Newspapers Go Digital, 1981
You don't like the new online paywall at The New York Times? Well, it used to be a whole lot worse.
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Tech Time Warp of the Week: Before Facebook, Prodigy Gave Us ‘Sex, Dogs, and...
Long before Mark Zuckerberg unleashed his social network from a Harvard dorm room -- even before the internet as we know it took shape -- people were connecting with each other through...
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