September 2, 1969: Forty years ago today, in Leonard Kleinrock's UCLA lab, a group of computer scientists managed to pass bits of data from one computer to another over some some gray cable. In doing so, they created the first node of what we now call (long dramatic pause)...

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At this point, it's hard to imagine life without the Internet, at least in the developed world. But buried underneath the breathtaking Web applications and streaming media that we use on a daily basis, the actual software that makes the Internet work is starting to show its age.

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A Brief History of Ugh! Spam, ie Junk E-Mail

But for a fateful click of the mouse one day in May 1978, we might now pass our days in blissful productivity as we read emails and searched the internet.

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How The Internet was Invented

The man generally recognized as a "Father of the Internet", Vinton Cerf is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and the basic architecture of the Internet. Vinton G. Cerf is currently vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google.

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The date: May 3, 1978. The culprit: Gary Thuerk, a marketer for the old Digital Equipment Corporation. His crime: Sending a sales e-mail to 393 users on Arpanet (then a U.S. government computer network and the predecessor of today's Internet).

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A brief history of email

Although this essay is just under 5 years old it already seems dated at the conclusion. I think it will be of some use to a few nonetheless. It is from my first year HND while I was studying for my foundation degree. Enjoy.

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The Internet is 30 today. Exactly 30 years ago today on November 22, 1977 the first three networks were connected to become the Internet. These three were:

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Imagine a history of World War 2 that failed to cover the events in 1930s Germany. Conventional histories of the internet are that incomplete, according to a researcher.

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....There have always been undercurrents that have tried to eat away at the foundations of the current Internet. One is Internet2, a parallel-universe Internet that would be used by academia and perhaps the military.

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DARPA*, the US military's occasionally eccentric death-tech hothouse, is often lauded as having created the internet. Under its old name ARPA, the agency oversaw development of the so-called Arpanet, forerunner of today's IP net.

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Internet space will run out by 2012, Vincent Cerf, Google VP

I attended this event at the University of South Carolina. It was very interesting. I've got fuzzy cell phone video of most of the event, which I try to clean up and maybe "youtube" it (did they already make that a verb or do I just do it).

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When the ARPANET was designed in the late 1960s, it was outfitted with a Network Control Protocol (NCP) that made it possible for the very different types of hosts connected to the network to talk with each other.

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The internet indeed began as a typical government program, the ARPANET, designed to share mainframe computing power and to establish a secure military communications network.

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The world's first spam email was sent on May 1, 1978 by a DEC marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.

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