The ‘hot potato heuristic’ is a really helpful way to illustrate what we today call ‘packet switching’, because it was created for this very reason by the technology’s inventor – Paul Baran, a Polish ...

In doing so, the company almost invented the internet. But after a few seemingly insurmountable struggles, it decided to end what was then the best hope of a world wide web. The story begins with ...

Former U.S. vice president Al Gore was famously misquoted back in 1999 that he invented the internet. The vice president stopped by Tech Insider recently and explained what his contribution to the ...

University College London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the ...

A mockumentary short following 'Gary Internet,' the eccentric self-acclaimed 'inventor of the internet,' and his trouble re-connecting with the modern world.

Morris says he released the worm to figure out how big the Internet was ... even though his eponymous worm created a huge hassle for a lot of people. Instead, he got 400 hours of community ...