It was mid-1971. Ten scientists met at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Tech Square in Cambridge. They had been given a task by the director of the Pentagon’s Information Processing Techniques ...

On October 29, 1969, the first successful message was sent over ARPANET. UCLA student Charley Kline transmitted from an SDS Sigma 7 computer to an SDS 940 machine at the Stanford Research Institute.

The first message sent over Arpanet was an inauspicious start to what would grow into the internet (Credit: Emmanuel LaFont) On 29 October 1969, two scientists established a connection between ...

Lawrence Roberts, acknowledged as the designer of ARPANET, the precursor of today's internet, passed away on Dec. 26 in his home in Redwood City, Calif. Roberts, 81, died of a heart attack, according ...

Robert Taylor helped bring about the creation of the internet One of the founding fathers of the internet, Robert Taylor, has died. While working at the Pentagon in the 1960s, he instigated the ...

1965: Lawrence Roberts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology creates the first network, linking computers in Massachusetts and California. 1969: The U.S. Defense Department creates a precursor ...