U.S., others prepping for cyberwar Nov 19, 2009
There have been unauthorized penetrations into government systems since the early ARPANET days and it has long been known that the U.S. critical infrastructure is vulnerable. However, experts are putting dots together and seeing patterns that indicate that there is increasing intelligence gathering and building of sophisticated cyberattack capabilities, according to the report titled "Virtually Here: The Age of Cyber Warfare.". (CNN)
Down to the nuts and bolts Nov 6, 2009
Technologist: J. C. R. Licklider, who, as head of ARPA, was most responsible for establishing the intellectual environment into which the modern computer and the internet (originally ARPANET) were born. Also the person most responsible for shepherding the Multics operating system project, which greatly influenced the Unix platform. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Internet is 40 years young Oct 31, 2009
US telecom colossus AT&T ran lines connecting the computers for ARPANET, a project backed with money from a research arm of the US military ... Kleinrock's team logged in on the second try, sending digital data packets between computers on the ARPANET because funding came from the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) established in 1958 ... ARPANET grew into what is known today as the internet. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Language lab Oct 31, 2009
It is 40 years to the week since the first data packets were sent over the Arpanet ... Late on October 29 1969 Charley Kline sat down at a computer in the computer laboratory at UCLA, where he was a student, and established a link to a system at the nearby Stanford Research Institute, sending the first data packets over the nascent Arpanet ... Later in the year permanent links were made between four sites in the US, and over the following years the ARPANET grew into a worldwide research network.... (BBC News -- Technology)
40 Years Later, Internet Still Crashing Oct 31, 2009
Kleinrock, at UCLA, was trying to to communicate with the Stanford Research Institute, and he was trying to write the word "login." The U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency had just installed ARPANET, a network of just four computer terminals installed at universities and research institutions in California and Utah ... The ARPANET system later morphed into the Internet we know today, though it took years for the network to move beyond the universities and research... (Fox News)
Celebrating 40 years of the net Oct 30, 2009
At 2100, on 29 October 1969, engineers 400 miles apart at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and Stanford Research Institute (SRI) prepared to send data between the first nodes of what was then known as Arpanet ... Watching remotely in Washington 40 years ago was Dr Larry Roberts, the MIT scientist who worked out the fundamental technical specifications of the Arpanet ... The engineers who built the hardware that made Arpanet work, did so to his design. (BBC News -- Technology)
Internet Turns 40 Today: First Message Crashed System Oct 30, 2009
On October 29, 1969, that message became the first ever to travel between two computers connected via the ARPANET, the computer network that would become the Internet ... Created by the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency, the original ARPANET was a network of just four computer terminals installed at universities and research institutions in and ... With its truncated missive 40 years ago today, ARPANET became the world's first operational packet-switching network. (National Geographic)
First Internet message sent 40 years ago today Oct 30, 2009
Early Internet (then ARPANET) users operated on an honor system, Kleinrock says, which has led to problems later. "If we had to do it over again, we would have built more controls into the Internet to keep the 'dark side' of things out. But it has been an incredible time.". (USA Today -- Tech)
Internet's 40th anniversary marked in U.S. Oct 30, 2009
The daylong celebration and forum at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) was lead by Leonard Kleinrock, a computer science professor of the university who on Oct. 29, 1969 headed a team to send the first message over the ARPANET, which later became the Internet ... "Byreliably connecting different kinds of computers to each other, the ARPANET took a crucial step toward the online world that links nearly a third of the world's population today.". (Xinhuanet, China)
General Catalyst stays hot amid VC slump Raytheon buys BBN for $350M Oct 29, 2009
Founded in 1948, BBN is best known for its development of the U.S. military s Arpanet system, a precursor to the Internet. Most Read Stories. (Boston Business Journal, MA)
Edit: 40-year Teen Oct 29, 2009
Not necessarily because America sent a man to the moon or the Woodstock concert took place, but because something called Arpanet was born. A professor at an American university sent a message from his computer to another machine in Stanford a few hundred miles away, ushering in an information revolution the likes of which - as Arpanet morphed into the internet - mankind last saw centuries earlier with the invention of the printing press. (India Times, India)
Web a teen at 40 Oct 27, 2009
" US telecom colossus ATlines connecting the computers for ARPANET, a project backed with money from a research arm of the US military. Engineers began typing "LOG" to log into the distant computer, which crashed after getting the "O." "So, the first message was 'Lo' as in 'Lo and behold'," Kleinrock recounted. "We couldn't have a better, more succinct first message. " Kleinrock's team logged in on the second try, sending digital data packets between computers on the ARPANET. Computers at two... (iAfrica.com)
Internet 'a teenager' at 40 years old Oct 25, 2009
US telecom colossus ATlines connecting the computers for ARPANET, a project backed with money from a research arm of the US military ... Kleinrock's team logged in on the second try, sending digital data packets between computers on the ARPANET. Computers at two other US universities were added to the network by the end of that year. (Channelnewsasia.com)
Defense communications conference highlights Bay State’s strong suit Oct 20, 2009
BBN Technologies, the pioneering Cambridge research and development firm that was one of the developers of ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet, is also at the show. BBN, which was bought by Raytheon in September, demonstrated its K-Node Testbad battlefield network emulator, which simulates connectivity among soldiers, satellites, and unmanned aerial vehicles. (Boston Globe)
The building blocks of new industries are missing Oct 18, 2009
Slywotzky said the personal computer revolution was boosted by such technologies as the graphical user interface developed at Xerox s Palo Alto Research Center, while the Internet evolved from the Arpanet underwritten by the Pentagon s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Technologies pioneered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration similarly have been used in everything from cellphones to medical implants. (Boston Globe)
Twitter used to help sell Web company Oct 5, 2009
Alexander Graham Bell placed the first telephone call in Boston in 1876, and in 1971 Cambridge researcher Ray Tomlinson wrote the software that allowed e-mail messages to be sent from one computer to another over the Arpanet, the Internet s predecessor. (It was Tomlinson who selected the @ sign for e-mail addresses. (Boston Globe)
US relaxes grip on the internet Oct 1, 2009
The internet began as a research project by the US military, known as Arpanet. On 1 October 1969, the second computer was connected to the network, said Mr Beckstrom. (BBC News -- Americas)
Turning Internet Confusion into Success: Social Networking Sep 17, 2009
The first act on the then ARPAnet (now internet) was a student sending a transmission from UCLA to Stanford that simply said 'login. Unfortunately the system crashed after the 'o' but it eventually worked an hour later. (RealtyTimes)
Asian networking sites profit from virtual cash Sep 10, 2009
From arpanet in 1969 to a major daily paper moving entirely online, here are key items in the Internet's development and growth. The Associated Press. (MSNBC -- Technology)
If Google and Amazon Ran the Web Sep 8, 2009
"Bob Metcalfe: Imagine a bearded grad student being handed a dozen AT&T executives, all in pin-striped suits and quite a bit older and cooler. And I'm giving them a tour. And when I say a tour, they're standing behind me while I'm typing on one of these terminals. I'm traveling around the Arpanet showing them: Ooh, look. You can do this. And I'm in U.C.L.A. in Los Angeles now. And now I'm in San Francisco. And now I'm in Chicago. And now I'm in Cambridge, Massachusetts isn't this cool? And as... (BusinessWeek)
Tech.view: The internet at forty Sep 5, 2009
The success heralded the start of ARPANET, a telecommunications network designed to link researchers around America who were working on projects for the Pentagon. ARPANET, conceived and paid for by the defence department s Advanced Research Projects Agency (nowadays called DARPA), was unquestionably the most important of the pioneering packet-switched networks that were to give birth eventually to the internet ... By December 1969 the first four nodes of ARPANET were up and running. (The Economist)
Birthday spoiler Sep 5, 2009
Computer scientist Leonard Kleinrock at the University of California, Los Angeles, was working on a government-funded research project called Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). The first actual message was sent the following month on October 29, when he tried to communicate with another computer at the Stanford Research Institute. (Asia Times Online)
MEMORIES: How 20 popular websites looked when they launched... Sep 4, 2009
Are you going to bring up ARPANET and pretend that it is somehow something that people today would consider a source of one of today's popular websites ... The 'internet' has spawned from several sources joining together, but 90% from a mutation of the ARPANET, if some older kids out there remember there was 'internet' way back, this includes the various BBS's and the likes of PRESTEL and the various private telecommunications projects out there ... Even then it wasn't the *internet*, it was... (The Drudge Report)
TIMELINE: Internet Turns 40 Today Or Does It? Sep 3, 2009
At the time, and his colleagues were charged with developing the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (or ARPANET), a government-funded research project in global computer communications that eventually. On Sept. 2, 1969, Kleinrock and his team succeeded in getting two computers to exchange data over a network for the first time. (ABC News)
An Unconstitutional Internet Power Grab Sep 2, 2009
" Many companies and organizations are connected through multiple network channels, using independent physical network paths and independent network service providers. This precisely is to avoid any problems with a single network cable to the outside, or a single provider's network. The providers themselves, from your cable company to big players like Sprint or ATerconnect to themselves and each other at hundreds or thousands of places. Above that they connect with networking companies outside... (CBS News -- Opinion)
Raytheon to buy BBN, a firm that helped create Net Sep 2, 2009
BBN was also chosen by the Department of Defense to build a computer network called Arpanet, the forerunner of the modern Internet. During the 1990s, BBN ran a commercial Internet service and was acquired by the telephone carrier GTE, which, in turn, merged with Bell Atlantic in 2000 to become. (Boston Globe)
Internet's 40th "Birthday" Marked Sep 1, 2009
" By the late 1960s computers were being used by NASA and other government agencies. Then on September 2nd 1969, in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, two computers passed test data through a 15-foot gray cable. Stanford Research Institute joined the fledging ARPANET network a month later; UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah joined by year's end, and the internet was born. VOICEOVER (English) no name given: "In the 70s, the silicone chip became the basis of a new... (National Geographic)
When the Internet Breaks, Who You Gonna Call? Aug 31, 2009
The Internet evolved from the experimental military ARPAnet project, where technical decisions were made by consensus among the researchers involved. When consensus was reached, changes were made throughout the entire network. (ABC News)
At 40, Internet grows stodgier Aug 31, 2009
1969: On Sept. 2, two computers at University of California, Los Angeles, exchange meaningless data in first test of Arpanet, an experimental military network. 1970: Arpanet gets first East Coast node, at Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Mass ... 1973: Arpanet gets first international nodes, in England and Norway. (News & Observer)
How Science Can Create Millions of New Jobs Aug 29, 2009
Likewise, DARPA's creation of the Internet (as ARPAnet) in 1969 and Xerox PARC's development of the Ethernet and the graphic user interface (GUI) further developed the transformative computer and Internet industries. The basic research breakthroughs unleashed subsequent cycles of applied innovation that created entirely new sectors of our economy. (BusinessWeek)
Packet switching reroutes Web traffic Aug 4, 2009
Last week, I wrote that packet switching was invented early on by ARPANET in order to make networking over wide areas possible. Packet switching works well in conjunction with the millions of computers and routers and cables that make up the Internet. (Missoulian, MT)
TECHNOLOGY - Packet switching enables Internet Jul 28, 2009
So, in the late 1960s, ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) came up with the concept of a standard way in which computers could talk to each other on a network that could cover the entire country without the need for every computer to be wired by cable to every other computer. That was called packet switching, and it remains the basic form of communication of today s Internet. (Missoulian, MT)
DARPA's Big Hits Jul 26, 2009
DARPA developed the military network, the ARPANET, from which the Internet later emerged. Launched with four connected sites in 1969, it eventually linked universities and think tanks before an international network was commercialized in the mid-1990s. (BusinessWeek)
Can the Military Find the Answer to Alternative Energy? Jul 25, 2009
Most famously, DARPA's researchers first linked together computers at four locations in the early 1960s to form the ARPANET, a computer network for researchers that was the core of what eventually grew into the Internet. Other breakthroughs have helped lead to the commercial development of semiconductors, GPS, and UNIX, the widely used computer operating system. (BusinessWeek)
Column: Early days of the Internet Jul 20, 2009
In the late 1960s, ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) looked into the ways that computer systems across the country could all be connected with a standard form of communication. So ARPANET developed packet switching, that standard system of computer communication that continues to this day ... You may of heard the myth that ARPANET's project was first designed as a military communication system that might be able to survive the damage of a nuclear war. (Missoulian, MT)
U.K. Teen Piracy Down as Streaming Soars Jul 14, 2009
" Spotify is ad-funded, and is rapidly expanding its catalogue. The service is even name-checked in the report, along with Last FM (), as showing "that where the system is failing to serve the needs of users, innovative business models will develop to fill the gap". Music Ally's figures appear to suggest that these new models are at least partially responsible for fighting piracy. However, a move to streaming could have implications for the functioning of the internet. Larry Roberts, one of the... (BusinessWeek)
Ira Richer, at 70; succeeded as engineer and woodworker Jul 2, 2009
At BBN, he was part of a three-person team, along with John McQuillan and Eric Rosen, which in 1978 developed a new technique for routing data through a communication network - at that time, it was Arpanet, a precursor to the Internet - according to his son, Mark of Las Cruces, N.M.. While at BBN, Dr. Richer also spent two years working and living with his family in northern Italy as a consultant to Olivetti, Italy s leading computer company on the design and implementation of a countrywide... (Boston Globe)
Security strengthened for .org domain Jun 4, 2009
DNS replaced the host-table naming system, which dates back to the Internets predecessor the ARPAnet and predates the implementation of TCP/IP. With the host table, a centrally managed file maintained by the Network Information Center at Stanford University was updated every week or so to map between host names and location on the network. Network users could download the file to get up-to-date addresses. (FCW.com)
Green energy sets up shop in Washington May 17, 2009
The better-known ARPA, of course, is the group within the Department of Defense that helped launched the Internet (whose predecessor was known as the ARPANET). And the hope is that the federal government's stimulus funding will help spark a similar kind of explosive growth for the green energy sector - even if it takes a decade or two to really pay off. (Boston Globe)
Indian entrepreneurs winning global awards for breakthrough innovations Mar 27, 2009
Just as the roots of e-mail can be traced back to the US Department of Defense's ARPANET programme and the Global Positioning System was a gift to the world by the US Air Force. The Pentagon has been at the forefront of incubating some very high-payoff research, until time reduces them to mass freeware. (India Times)
Which social network should I join? Mar 11, 2009
From ARPAnet to bulletin boards to Usenet to the World Wide Web to the current slew of Friendster-alikes, all a social network is, really, is people communicating with people. Within most of the services we think of as social networks nowadays -- MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Tribe, Geeks, Bebo, whatever -- you can find groups that cater to individual interests ranging from classical music appreciation to backpacking to amorous interaction between consenting adults who also happen to like... (CNN -- Tech)
POLLS ON OBAMA: Strong. But Average. And Way Divided... Feb 25, 2009
Look at the disaster that grew out of that government boondoggle ARPAnet. Or the curse to humanity municipal sanitation and universal education is. (The Drudge Report)
