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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…

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An interview with Alan Emtage

On the 28th November 2017 I was lucky enough to interview Alan Emtage, inventor of the…

A (very) Concise Creative History of Computers

A (very) Concise Creative History of Computers

It all started in 1952, when strangely composed, anonymous love letters started appearing on the noticeboard…

Archie

Search and you will find

In the early days of the web, Tim Berners-Lee maintained a list of websites on the…

Earthmine 2009

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…

Dancing Baby

GIF not JIF

It’s almost thirty-years-old. It only supports 256 colours. It’s unsuitable for photographs. It has no sound…

Original Bboard Thread in which :-) was proposed by Scott Fahlman on 19 September, 1982

The Emoticon

The first use of the smiley face on a screen was in September 1982 at Carnegie…

Leon Harmon and Kenneth Knowlton’s reclining nude, 1966. An image of the dancer Deborah Hay was dissected into a grid and assigned an icon according to its halftone density.

Bitworld: The creative history of computers

Eye magazine is the quarterly review of graphic design for artists and designs professionals. In issue 88,…