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'Internet van' turns 30

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., celebrates a nondescript converted bread truck for its instrumental role in developing the first mobile and wireless Internet connection. News.com's Kara Tsuboi introduces the engineers behind a feat that happened three decades ago this month.

Tags: Wi-Fi, Wireless, internet, kara tsuboi, van, arpanet, radio, computer, history

Videos 2007-11-09

Internet pioneer Robert Kahn: It was a different world back then

Robert Kahn was one of the industry titans that was awarded one of the Computer History Museums Fellow Awards on Tuesday night earlier this week. Kahns resume places him squarely at ground zero of the innovation on which most of the Internet and the Web is based. According to the...

Tags: Kahn, computer, ARPAnet

Blog posts 2006-10-19

Hackers get into USC database

Hackers get into USC databaseWouldn't it be more informative to have MORE INFO on the details?IE, platforms and what or where the vulnerability was.... Usually it IS MS until proven non-MS ... ;-)-mHow it was donehttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/usc_site_cracked/"The vulnerability in USC's online Web application system is a relatively common and well-known software...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Linux, Operating systems, Storage, Databases, database, worm, Unix, ARPAnet, USC

Discussion threads 2005-07-19

Domain Name Service (DNS)

In the early days of the ARPANET, the forerunner to today's Internet, there were only a small number of computers attached to the network. As the ARPANET continued to grow, it became clear that ARPANET needed a better solution. Several proposals were generated based on the concept of a distributed...

Tags: ARPAnet, DNS, Domain Name, Domain Names, Networking, Internet

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Additional Resources

The tattered history of OOP

This is a guest blog by frequent contributor Mark Miller - a followup on our earlier discussions of the effectiveness and value of the object oriented programming idea. OOP has been a mixed bag, but I say this only because...

Tags: Message, Software, Object-oriented Programming, Smalltalk, Idea, Data, Object-oriented, Unix, Object, Alan Kay, Way Object-orientation, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Understand network addressing architecture by studying its evolution

In the early days of the development of networks, major issues with addressing were ignored in favor of simple -- and adequate -- solutions. Unfortunately, addressing architecture hasn't kept pace with network growth. This sample chapter from Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals offers a detailed look...

Tags: Network, Prentice Hall Inc., Networking

Book chapters 2008-04-29

1:1 computing...Can it be justified?

1:1 computing...Can it be justified?The Price of PrivilegeIt's interesting to consider the world in which these prep school students will eventually emerge. They will have had the experience of having a personal computer and personal unlimited access to tech resources and the Internet throughout their formative years. They will take...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, laptop computer, computer

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

Appliance computing

Appliance computingAppliances versus ComputersMy Korg X5 music workstation must have a microprocessor in it but I have no idea what and presumably has an operating system that one never sees or needs to know about, it "boots" instantly and has been working reliably for more than 10 years. I also...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, E-mail, Operating systems, computer, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-07-26

What is Intel's mobile Linux game?

What is Intel's mobile Linux game?what you've said is like a dog chasing its tail in circlesInnovators innovate - trueOpen source has provided no innovations. They just copy others innovation. Just another "Me too" or wanna be, not the real deal.So asking for spectrum to be given away for free...

Tags: game, Mobile Linux, Microsoft Corp., Ubuntu, open source, Intel Corp., innovation, Internet, mobile

Discussion threads 2007-07-17

Discover valuable IT security lessons by tracing the history of cybercrime

The phenomenon of cybercrime is as old computers themselves. As soon as the first computer networks were built, some people were looking for ways to exploit them for their own illegal purposes. In this sample chapter from Scene of the Cybercrime: Computer Forensics Handbook, trace the history of cybercrime from...

Tags: Cybercrime, IT Security, Information Technology, Computer, Syngress, Chapter Coverage, Productivity

Book chapters 2007-05-17

Routers in space: Defense to launch (literally) space-based Internet

The Defense Dept. plans to put a router in space by 2009 to allow troops to access voice, data and video over IP, the BBC reports. Eventually DoDs Iris project could allow satellites to send data directly between each other, instead of sending it via ground stations. "Iris...

Tags: Government technology, Defense

Blog posts 2007-04-13

Internet: The next generation (or 'Routers in Space')

Back in the 1960s, it was a US Defense Department agency, DARPA, that created the network that has become the Internet. Now, the DOD has approved and funded a new project, Iris, that might wind up jump-starting a new chapter in Internet history - the wired cosmos. The...

Tags: Defense, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-13

Windows vs. Unix: the resolution

Windows vs. Unix: the resolutionThere is nothing new under the SunHuman nature and behavior is very complex, though not actually a microsoft guy, but you can not actually blame Microsoft for seizing all the oppurtunity available to it. If the writer has similar situation will he not utilize it? if...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Microsoft development tools, Programming languages, Microsoft Corp., Unix, marketing, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-03-22

The Top Ten differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

The Top Ten differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0that's funnyI find this article kind of amusing since the zdnet website has recently been updated to look more Web 2.0-ish, include the awfully digg-like thumbs up or down voting system. Ha. Ha.As for AJAX and the Back button, I've only...

Tags: Channel management, P.S., O'Reilly, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2006-12-15

Your cell phone is charged. Please unplug

Your cell phone is charged. Please unplugUmfrgough... It isn't about conserving eletricity... It is about conserving in order to decrease the amount of polution that enters the atmosphere. In my opinion, the more we do to decrease global warming, the better.where do you dump the nuclear waste?.Oh, pleasePerhaps some day...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, cell phone, phone, adaptor, charger

Discussion threads 2006-09-21

Web 2.0 entering corporate world slowly

Web 2.0 entering corporate world slowlyAnd apparently they haven't learned that "Web 2.0" doens't mean anythingYou know very well that MUCH larger revolutions have happened since the bith of the Internet. It should be better called Web 4.0 or 5.0 if you want to call it anything at all. BBSes...

Tags: Channel management, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2006-09-20

FCC sets road map for using vacant TV airwaves

FCC sets road map for using vacant TV airwavesBroadcasters concerned w/ interference"...expressed concerns about interference with their signals if license is not required.."Yeah right. It certainly is not about keeping a nice stiff barrier to competing content providers. It's a scam. TV broadcasters are squatting on what is arguably one...

Tags: Federal government, TVs, TV, FCC

Discussion threads 2006-09-12

Cry the beloved country!

Cry the beloved country!South Africa WiFiRead P. J. O'Rourke's book "All the trouble in the world," specifically his chapter on Bangladesh. The chapter on Africa is also illuminating. His thesis- much of the world's problem stem from a combination of governmental corruption and/or lassitude, and popular passivity - the latter...

Tags: Network technology, IP

Discussion threads 2006-09-07

Are Maps Mashups Patentable?

Are Maps Mashups Patentable?Can vs. ShouldThis illustrates one of the reasons I really despise software patents. When some entity be it Google or an individual publishes an API it is [i]always[/i] for the express purpose of making their tool as flexible and useful as possible. The intent is to allow...

Tags: patent, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, pigeon, technology patent, API

Discussion threads 2006-09-03

Saying "goodbye" to the Net

Saying "goodbye" to the NetGood guys and bad guysIt's sad that after all your years of "covering telcos" you still think about these issues in moral terms. It's a technical debate, and that's why you lost.The Republicans in the Senate do understand the issues.The issues have been defined well enough.Quotes...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, telecommunications company, network

Discussion threads 2006-06-28