Deconstructing Code

Father of modern spam speaks

Father of modern spam speaks
On April 12, 1994, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, two immigration lawyers from Arizona, flooded the Internet with a mass mailing promoting their law firm's advisory services.

Posted by rshah on March 26, 2002| Comments (0)

Turning on the World Wide Web

Turning on the World Wide Web
Paul kunx, web pioneer, This country's actual Web pioneer, by contrast, had smaller things on his mind when he launched the first Web server and Web page on U.S. soil. Much smaller, in fact: electrons. It was at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) that particle physicist Paul Kunz wrote and posted the first American Web page 10 years ago today.

Posted by rshah on December 10, 2001| Comments (0)

HTML

HTML
HTML has had a life-span of roughly seven years. During that time, it has evolved from a simple language with a small number of tags to a complex system of mark-up, enabling authors to create all-singing-and-dancing Web pages complete with animated images, sound and all manner of gimmicks.

Posted by rshah on November 16, 2001| Comments (0)

Paternity Dispute Divides Net Pioneers

Paternity Dispute Divides Net Pioneers
Now a dispute is churning around credit for a modern scientific breakthrough: packet switching, the technology that breaks all data that travels over the Internet into discrete bundles that are then sent along various paths around the network and reassembled at their destination.

Posted by rshah on November 08, 2001| Comments (0)

Gopher system was the early way around the Net

Gopher system was the early way around the Net
Before Jeff Bezos, before Marc Andreessen, software engineers Mark McCahill, Farhad Anklesaria and a team of developers at the University of Minnesota created a campus-wide information system that changed the way people used the Internet.

Posted by rshah on November 07, 2001| Comments (0)

Present at the 'e'-creation

Present at the 'e'-creation
Interview: When Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail 30 years ago, he didn't think enough of his achievement to record the message or the date.

Posted by rshah on October 10, 2001| Comments (0)

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 on October 05, 2001| Comments (0)

Canada's Internet History

Canada's Internet History
An historical account of the Canadian Internet, it is told by the people who worked on the frontlines - the believers, the researchers, the innovators, the businessmen, and the politicians. It was their commitment and hard work which led to a national network. CA*net, Canada's first national Internet, was the beginning of a new kind of Canadian infrastructure for a new age - the information age.

Posted by rshah on August 10, 2001| Comments (1)

Technical History of the Internet

Technical History of the Internet
(a tutorial given by 19 voices, speaking for a much larger community)at SIGCOMM '99, 31 August 1999, Cambridge MA, USA

Posted by rshah on July 03, 2001| Comments (0)

Telnet

Telnet
Telnet was and is the way of connectiong to computers on the Internet. Before the World Wide Web made graphical access to the Internet possible, computers on the Internet understood only typed commands very much like DOS.

Posted by rshah on May 08, 2001| Comments (0)

ARPANET documents at the Internet Archive

ARPANET documents at the Internet Archive
The materials were collected by Katie Hafner in preparation for a book written with Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet"

Posted by rshah on March 30, 2001| Comments (0)

First Ever Webcam to Come Offline

First Ever Webcam to Come Offline
Cambridge University Computer Laboratory's famous coffee pot camera - allegedly the world's first web cam (indeed, it predated the web by a few years in its original form) is to be retired, when the department moves to a new building.

Posted by rshah on March 07, 2001| Comments (0)