An interview with Robert Taylor, former manager of Xerox PARC, shows TCP/IP designs were based a lot on the PARC Universal Packet (PUP) networking protocol suite. To understand where we are going, we ...

Fifty-seven years ago, a computer at UCLA tried to send the word "LOGIN" to a machine at Stanford. It managed two letters ...

Do they teach networking history classes yet? Or is it still too soon? I was reading [Al]’s first installment of the Forgotten Internet series, on UUCP. The short summary is that it was a system for ...

Granted, computer networking was initially envisioned in the heyday of The Beatles as a military-centric command and control scheme. But as it expanded beyond just a privileged few hubs and nodes, so ...