Kleinrock got early hints of what it would be. In 1978, he and others in the Arpanet community were shocked to see the first spam, an ad for computers sent by the Digital Equipment Corporation.

That season featured interviews with the founding fathers of this seminal technology, driven by a lifelong request from my father, U.S. Air Force major Joseph Haughney, who ran the Arpanet for the ...

And, of course, email. The Arpanet pretty much created the concept of routing and multiple paths from one site to another. That got reliability in case a communication line failed.

The internet's origins trace back to a military tool — the ARPANET — developed in collaboration with figures like Joseph Haughney, a retired major in the U.S. Air Force who died last month.

Phasing out ARPANET began in the 1980s when its objectives were met. All of the leftover networks served as precursors of today’s internet.

ARPANET was built as a way to allow computers to share information, but pass it through distributed networks, so that if one node was lost, the chain of communication could continue through another.

Explore the fascinating history of the internet, from ARPANET, and the birth of the World Wide Web, to the rise of social media, cloud computing and Web3.

The world observes a playful creeper worm in the system of ARPANET. Created as an experiment by Bob Thomas, this became the first-ever computer worm to infect a network and a system. Though it was ...

ARPANET adopted this on Jan. 1, 1983, and the “modern” internet was born. Who's the owner of Google?: The same company that owns Waze and YouTube ...