It's 40 years since packet switching was invented by a team at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Bushy Park, Middlesex. This photo gallery takes a nostalgic look at the neonatal internet, and its proud parent.
This week, the world marks an anniversary that has changed the face and other anatomical regions of e-mail inboxes everywhere: the first known spam e-mail was sent 30 years ago on Saturday.
A new showcase for optical networking technology is beginning to light up, offering a test bed for research that could help spark a fire under the moribund industry.
For close to half a decade, US entertainment executives and copyright-averse college students have debated the future of technology side by side on the "Pho" e-mail list. Now that forum is under siege.
On April 12, 1994, a pair of attorneys in Arizona launched a homemade marketing software program that forever changed the Internet.
We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet.
Forget Internet2. The National LambdaRail is the most ambitious network research project going. But can it save the optical networking industry?
The protocol that has defined e-mail for more than two decades may have a fatal flaw: It trusts you
One-on-one with Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe.
According to one Net pioneer, the Internet has just turned 20. But didn't it just just pass a more mature milestone?
Microsoft Office 2010 beta
The beta for Microsoft Office 2010 is here and we've had a chance to check out the latest version. Though the … Watch it now
Ben Forta: All about Adobe
Take one ColdFusion veteran and mix in a healthy dose of prolific book writing, and chances are you will end u… Watch it now
Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Google's chief sits down for an extremely rare, wide-ranging interview and discusses Google's two operating sy… Watch it now
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Forget the NBN, 100Mbps is already here
IT: Govt's cost-cutting bitch
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