Peter Kirstein had to overcome various hurdles to connect the UK to the internet, including intransigent governments, dismissive industry and the taxman.

They established a system called ARPAnet, which had four main hubs ... and Cornell University. This first Internet system could send data at 56 kilobits per second -- which is slower than some ...

Later, we connected the first multi-service heterogeneous network outside the US (Janet, the UK’s academic network connecting universities) to Arpanet, and then to the Internet in the early 1980s.

The architecture of the internet had grown to the point that when Arpanet was switched off network staff alone were aware of the fact. Tim BernersLee introduces the world wide web project to the world ...

Later, we connected the first multi-service heterogeneous network outside the US (Janet, the UK's academic network connecting universities) to Arpanet, and then to the internet in the early 1980s.

DARPA created the ARPANET, which was the first network of computers, which was later transitioned to the civilian internet. And that really cemented DARPA’s reputation as sort of an innovation ...

He became known for two key technologies that underpinned the ARPANET, which would eventually become what is now the internet. The first was his decision to implement packet switching, a ...