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    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.

  • Distributed computing cracks Enigma code

    More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine.

  • The Global State of Supercomputers

    With a click of the mouse, Tadashi Watanabe set the seas in motion.

  • Activists target US surveillance system

    A group of Internet activists hopes to bring attention to the controversial US-led communications spy network Echelon with a "Jam Echelon Day." But privacy experts say the protest as planned will have a minimal effect on the sophisticated surveillance system.

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  • GPS Tag wins Microsoft Devsta Challenge

    Turbulence, a game of tag using GPS-enabled mobile phones, has taken out Microsoft's Devsta Challenge 2008. We take a look at the top five entries.

  • Photos: The digital heroes of WW2

    As England's historic Bletchley Park raises funds to restore buildings used by code-breaking legends such as Alan Turing during World War II, ZDNet.com.au 's sister site CNET News.com is taking a look back at the cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish, and Japanese military forces awake at night.

  • Photos: Colossus war hero resurrected

    The Colossus code-cracking computer has recently been kicked into action for the first time in more than 60 years.

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