Peter Kirstein had to overcome various hurdles to connect the UK to the internet, including intransigent governments, dismissive industry and the taxman.

Arpanet was the vital precursor of today’s Internet, commissioned by the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1969. In his interesting account of why Arpanet came about ...

Arpanet was the vital precursor of today's internet, commissioned by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) in 1969. In his interesting account of why Arpanet came about ...

TCPIP or Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol was developed by Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf at Arpanet. In the 1980s it was to become the common 'language' of the internet. In 1975 ...

Arpanet pioneered technologies underpinning the internet that are still used today. Dr Roberts is recognized as one of the four founding fathers of the internet along with Bob Kahn, Vint Cerf and ...

The internet's origins trace back to a military tool — the ARPANET — developed in collaboration with figures like Joseph ...

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 ...

DARPA created the ARPANET, which was the first network of computers, which was later transitioned to the civilian internet. And that really cemented DARPA’s reputation as sort of an innovation ...

Realising how useful ARPANET was, other organisations built their own networks. However, these individual networks could not easily communicate with each other. Since then the use of the internet ...