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Celebrating The Origins of Packet Switching

Posted by timothy on from the let's-meet-up-at-the-next-node dept.

XaN-ASMoDi writes with an interesting historical piece at the BBC on the early history of packet switching, excerpting: "It has often been said that change is the only constant in the 21st Century. And there is little doubt that the restless tone of these times is something that the web has helped to accelerate, but the only reason that [...] the web can cope with that punishing pace is thanks to work done four decades ago by British mathematician Donald Davies at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL). On 5 August 1968 Dr Davies gave the first public presentation of work he had been doing on a method of moving data around computer networks called 'packet switching.'"

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  1. Thank goodness for packet switching by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It allows me to get FIRST post

  2. Re:Celebrate? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I bet that guy from Sony would also like to bend you over his desk and fuck you in the ass.

  3. i just got off the toilet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i shit out an obama.

    plop!

  4. mo3 0p by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. fu3k!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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