An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1

An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1

In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was created because one man was annoyed at having too many computer terminals in his office. The year was 1966. Robert Taylor was the director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Information Processing Techniques Office. The agency was created in 1958 by President Eisenhower in response to the launch of Sputnik. So Tayl…

Ars Technica is doing a three-part series on the history of...

Ars Technica is doing a three-part series on the history of the internet; here’s part one, which covers ARPANET, IMPs, TCP/IP, RFCs, DNS, CompuServe, etc. “It was the first time that autocomplete had ruined someone’s day.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1 - WorldNL Magazine

Intergalactic Computer Network In our new 3-part series, we remember the people and ideas that made the Internet. Credit: Collage by Aurich Lawson Credit: Collage by Aurich Lawson In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was created because one man was annoyed at having too many computer terminals in his office. The year was 1966. Robert Taylor was the director of th…

Ars Technica’s history of the internet

Jeremy Reimer at, yes, Ars Technica with the first of a three-part series on the history of the internet. I even learned a few little tidbits that I hadn’t known before: In the meantime, Steve Crocker at the University of California, Los Angeles, was working on a set of software specifications for the host computers. It wouldn’t matter if the IMPs were perfect at sending and receiving messages if the computers themselves didn’t know what to do …