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Date: January 21st, 2010

The Internet heads into orbit

21 January, 2010 (09:48) | Internet, Technology | By: ricjames

(Stay tuned for a full disclosure at the bottom of this post.) In late 1969 two host computer systems, one at UCLA and the other at Stanford Research Institute, engaged in an electronic communication using a new process: packet switching. Without getting overly technical, this involved a network that broke digital information down into small [...]