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.
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.
With a click of the mouse, Tadashi Watanabe set the seas in motion.
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.
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.
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.
The Colossus code-cracking computer has recently been kicked into action for the first time in more than 60 years.
Google Chrome OS demonstration
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Malcolm Turnbull's ghost twitterer
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Surf the Net like it's 1991 with Gopher
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12 days without ADSL: A local loop eulogy
An abridged history of the Aussie internet
G'Day USA: Aussie start-ups head to America
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