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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…
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School Workshop
It was fantastic hearing young people’s vision of the Internet at Here East last week. While…
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Happy Birthday Internet
How do we define the birth of the Internet? As an ambiguous, shifting entity, it is…
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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…
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64 Bits: Here East 2017
Appearing as a standalone exhibition at Here East in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, 64-BITS consisted of…
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A (very) Concise Creative History of Computers
It all started in 1952, when strangely composed, anonymous love letters started appearing on the noticeboard…
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Search and you will find
In the early days of the web, Tim Berners-Lee maintained a list of websites on the…
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Plotting the past
Where maps were static, now they are dynamic. Where before we turned the page of an…
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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…
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GIF not JIF
It’s almost thirty-years-old. It only supports 256 colours. It’s unsuitable for photographs. It has no sound…
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