It was mid-1971. Ten scientists met at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Tech Square in Cambridge. They had been given a task by the director of the Pentagon’s Information Processing Techniques ...

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.

The untold history of when the internet really started making money. Season two pivots to the dawn of internet entrepreneurship and its broader, irrevocable impact on our culture in the 1990s.

The world wide web wouldn’t be possible without ARPANET, a government-funded research effort launched at UCLA in 1969. Leonard Kleinrock, a professor of computer science at the university and one of ...

Thanks to recent confirmation that your every online move is being monitored, trust in the internet seems like it’s at an all-time low. In fact, as we can see from an article published in 1973, we ...

On October 29, 1969, at 10:30pm Pacific Time, the first two letters were transmitted over ARPANET. And then it crashed. About an hour later, after some debugging, the first actual remote connection ...

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 ...

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