Category Archives: Internet

The Origins of the Open Internet and Net Neutrality

Posted on December 3, 2017 by GilPress

Two of this week’s milestones in the history of technology highlight the foundations laid 50 years ago that are at the core of today’s debates over net neutrality and the open Internet. On December 6, 1967, the Advanced Research Projects … Continue reading →

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The Bulletin Board System

Posted on October 27, 2016 by GilPress

IEEE Spectrum: For millions of people around the globe, the Internet is a simple fact of life. We take for granted the invisible network that enables us to communicate, navigate, investigate, flirt, shop, and play. Early on, this network-of-networks connected … Continue reading →

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Milestones in the History of Technology: Week of January 11, 2016

Posted on January 11, 2016 by GilPress

January 11, 1994 The Superhighway Summit is held at UCLA’s Royce Hall. It was the “first public conference bringing together all of the major industry, government and academic leaders in the field [and] also began the national dialogue about the … Continue reading →

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This Week in Tech History: The Internet is 46 years old and Internet Advertising is 21

Posted on October 26, 2015 by GilPress

October 27, 2010 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is celebrated or the first time, to “raise general awareness of the need for urgent measures to be taken and to acknowledge the importance of audiovisual documents as an integral part of … Continue reading →

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Web and Internet Firsts

Posted on October 22, 2014 by GilPress

Created by WebpageFX

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Interface Message Processor Proposed

Posted on September 6, 2014 by GilPress

Today in 1968, Larry Roberts and Jerry Elkind finished writing a proposal for building the first Interface Message Processor (IMP) and submitted it to ARPA. 

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The First Node of the Internet Goes Live

Posted on September 2, 2014 by GilPress

45 years ago today (September 2, 1969), at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), the first Interface Message Processor (IMP), built by BBN, is connected for the first time to its SDS Sigma-7 mainframe, thus establishing the first node of what will become the ARPANET … Continue reading →

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The Internet is Coming to NPR

Posted on July 6, 2014 by GilPress

  Source: “If We’d Only Known About The Impending Spam” HT: “Dawn of the Web: an oral history”  

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The Internet Geography Visualized

Posted on February 8, 2014 by GilPress

  Source: deviantART HT: Gizmodo

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Al Gore Gives Birth to the Internet

Posted on January 11, 2014 by GilPress

Today in 1994, The Superhighway Summit was held at UCLA’s Royce Hall. It was the “first public conference bringing together all of the major industry, government and academic leaders in the field [and] also began the national dialogue about the Information … Continue reading →

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