Before the Internet became a worldwide network, it existed as an intranet between the University of Utah and three research centers in California. Called ARPANET, the project was commissioned by the ...

In 1966 IBM mainframes could only connect to other IBM mainframes, Burroughs only to other Burroughs, etc. Beginning in 1967 the US Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) office ...

Oct. 29 (UPI) --Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of a milestone event that helped shape the modern Internet -- the first-ever computer linkup and the first electronic message sent over the U.S.

On October 29, 1969, the first successful message was sent over ARPANET. UCLA student Charley Kline transmitted from an SDS Sigma 7 computer to an SDS 940 machine at the Stanford Research Institute.

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 ...

The internet wasn’t born whole—it came together from parts. Most know of ARPANET, the internet’s most famous precursor, but it was always limited strictly to government use. It was NSFNET that brought ...

1965: Lawrence Roberts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology creates the first network, linking computers in Massachusetts and California. 1969: The U.S. Defense Department creates a precursor ...

This is the first known spam e-mail, from 1978. It was sent by Gary Thuerk, a Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) employee, to everyone on the ARPANET, predecessor of the Internet. ARPANET, which stood for ...

Lawrence Roberts, acknowledged as the designer of ARPANET, the precursor of today's internet, passed away on Dec. 26 in his home in Redwood City, Calif. Roberts, 81, died of a heart attack, according ...

The internet has lost one of its early architects. Larry Roberts, best known as the program manager for ARPAnet (the internet's precursor), died on December 26th at the age of 81. While he wasn't as ...