After about 3 hours newly added bottles were registered as being ‘COLD’, which could be queried from the PDP-10’s mainframe (CMUA) or via ARPANET using the finger command on the special ...

The ARPANET's creators had relatively little hands-on experience with Telnet and file transfer apps. The ICCC demo could conceivably flop, but if it worked, ...

The ARPANET made its first host-to-host connection on October 29, 1969 and from there slowly grew into a behemoth, laying the groundwork for our modern internet.

In a small way, ARPANET’s mission had been accomplished. “By that time, it was getting late, so I went home,” Kline told me. A plaque in room 3420 explains what happened there.

Arpanet carried its first message on October 29, 1969, laying the foundation for today’s networked world. Fifty years later, more than 4 billion people have internet access, and the number of ...

ARPANET was formally decommissioned on February 28, 1990. Well-known computer scientist and a “father of the Internet” Vinton Cerf wrote “Requiem of the ARPANET” in honor of the system: It was the ...

The Arpanet was hacked not long after it came out. See this timeline to read up on the highlights. Some of its vulnerabilities stem from its architects’ inability to credit malicious actors the ...

ARPANET may be nothing more than an artifact to us modern internet-goers, but there’s something lovely about a hand-embroidered memorial to a defunct remnant of the earliest networks.

See How Fast ARPANET Spread in Just Eight Years The internet of today touches the vast majority of the globe—and beyond—but not so long ago the net had a much more modest footprint.

In March 1982, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Communications, Command, Control, and Intelligence Richard DeLauer circulated an official memorandum essentially declaring the TCP/IP protocol ...

ARPANET was built as a way to allow computers to share information, but pass it through distributed networks, so that if one node was lost, the chain of communication could continue through another.

HitFix’s Alan Sepinwall reviews "Arpanet," the April 9 episode of FX’s "The Americans," in which Nina tries to beat the polygraph, while Philip tries to hack the early internet.