October 05, 2001
Paul Baran Interview by Wired
Paul Baran Interview by Wired
In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, an engineer named Paul Baran sold the US Department of Defense on the idea of a failure-resistant communications method called packet switching. But because of roadblocks at AT&T and the Pentagon, it wasn't until the 1970s that the technology was finally adopted as the foundation architecture of the Arpanet - the precursor to the Internet.
Posted by rshah at October 5, 2001 12:00 PM