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 ...

The minister cited this example from the Hindu epic Mahabharata to prove his point A minister who has claimed that the internet was invented thousands of years ago by ancient Indians is being met ...

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 ...