The ‘hot potato heuristic’ is a really helpful way to illustrate what we today call ‘packet switching’, because it was created for this very reason by the technology’s inventor – Paul Baran, a Polish ...

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

In doing so, the company almost invented the internet. But after a few seemingly insurmountable struggles, it decided to end what was then the best hope of a world wide web. The story begins with ...

Former U.S. vice president Al Gore was famously misquoted back in 1999 that he invented the internet. The vice president stopped by Tech Insider recently and explained what his contribution to the ...

A mockumentary short following 'Gary Internet,' the eccentric self-acclaimed 'inventor of the internet,' and his trouble re-connecting with the modern world.

Morris says he released the worm to figure out how big the Internet was ... even though his eponymous worm created a huge hassle for a lot of people. Instead, he got 400 hours of community ...