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Networks: Meet the Man Who Put the ‘@’ in Your E-Mail
Who invented e-mail? That's a bit like asking, "Who invented the internet?" Even those with intimate knowledge of its creation can't agree on the moment it actually came to life. But amid all the...
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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: What Do the H-Bomb and the Internet Have in Common? Paul Baran
Paul Baran set out to build a means of communication that could survive a nuclear war. And he ended up feeding the creation of the internet.
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Networks: Why Do We Call Them Internet Packets? His Name Was Donald Davies
The fundamental technology underpinning the internet is called packet-switching. And Donald Davies was the first one to call it that. In the mid-1960s, Davies was a researcher with Britain’s National...
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Networks: Larry Roberts Calls Himself the Founder of the Internet. Who Are...
Lawrence Roberts calls himself the founder of the internet. And it's hard to argue with him.
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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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Networks: Meet John Klensin, Internet History’s Jack of All Trades
What did John Klensin do for the internet? A little bit of everything. In April, Klensin was part of the inaugural class inducted into the Internet Society's (ISOC) Internet Hall of Fame, entering...
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Networks: Remembering Jon Postel — And the Day He Hijacked the Internet
One January day in 1998, Jon Postel emailed eight of the 12 organizations that served as address books for the entire internet. He told them to reconfigure their computer servers so that they pulled...
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History: Who Built the Internet? People Like Tan Tin Wee
The internet wasn't built by money-hungry American corporations and Silicon Valley startups. It was built by a worldwide community of government researchers and academics who were primarily interested...
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Networks: Say Bonjour to the Internet’s Long-Lost French Uncle
The internet was built on TCP/IP, networking protocols originally created by American computer scientists Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn. But Cerf and Kahn were building on the work of Louis Pouzin.
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