Author Archives: Jim Boulton
An Interview with Peter Kirstein CBE
Peter Kirstein CBE put the first computer on the ARPANET outside the US, worked with Vint…
School Workshop
It was fantastic hearing young people’s vision of the Internet at Here East last week. While…
Happy Birthday Internet
How do we define the birth of the Internet? As an ambiguous, shifting entity, it is…
50 Years of the Internet
At 10.30pm on 29 October 1969, a team led by Professor Leonard Kleinrock sent a message…
An interview with Alan Emtage
On the 28th November 2017 I was lucky enough to interview Alan Emtage, inventor of the…
64 Bits: Here East 2017
Appearing as a standalone exhibition at Here East in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, 64-BITS consisted of…
A (very) Concise Creative History of Computers
It all started in 1952, when strangely composed, anonymous love letters started appearing on the noticeboard…
Search and you will find
In the early days of the web, Tim Berners-Lee maintained a list of websites on the…
Plotting the past
Where maps were static, now they are dynamic. Where before we turned the page of an…
Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others
In the early ‘70’s, following the launch of ARPANET, several packet-switching networks emerged. Robert Kahn had…
GIF not JIF
It’s almost thirty-years-old. It only supports 256 colours. It’s unsuitable for photographs. It has no sound…
The Emoticon
The first use of the smiley face on a screen was in September 1982 at Carnegie…
