Collaborate Disseminate
Depending on how you look at it, the Internet turned 50 years old last week. On October 29, 1969, the first message was transmitted between two of the four nodes that made up ARPANET, the Internet’s predecessor network. ARPANET was created after a million dollars earmarked for ballistic missile defense …read more
Computer games have been around about as long as computers have. And though it may be hard to believe, Zork, a text-based adventure game, was the Fortnite of its time. But Zork is more than that. For portability and size reasons, Zork itself is written in Zork Implementation Language (ZIL), …read more
Continue reading Zork And The Z-Machine: Bringing The Mainframe To 8-bit Home Computers
In the early 1970s, Canada envisioned a Trans-Canada Computer Communications Network free from US control. Continue reading The Time Canada Wanted Its Own Internet Because It Thought the US Would Mess It Up
As computing reaches middle age, expect to see more of these kinds of anniversaries Continue reading Unhappy 39th birthday, spam, and many unhappy returns
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The Internet just lost one of its most prominent innovators.
Robert W Taylor, a computer scientist who was instrumental in creating the Internet as well as the modern personal computer, has died at the age of 85.
Mr. Taylor, who is best known as the mastermind of ARPAnet (precursor of the Internet), had Parkinson’s disease and died on Thursday at his home in Woodside
Continue reading Robert W. Taylor, Who Helped Create the Internet, Dies at 85
Behold, ARPANET in the early 1970s. Continue reading Mapping the Internet Was Really Easy in 1973
A last-ditch Republican effort to block the historic transition was rejected by a federal judge. Continue reading US to Transfer Internet DNS Oversight After GOP Sabotage Effort Fails
The Texas senator’s fear-mongering claims are baseless, according to policy experts. Continue reading Ted Cruz is Trying to Sabotage the Internet’s Governance Transition
I was sad to learn of the death of Ray Tomlinson on March 5. For those who don’t know, Ray was the engineer who figured out how to send email between computers in 1971. Part of that effort was the selection of the at sign (@) as the delimitation between personal account name and email domain for addressing messages.