At the bottom of the sea: a short history of submarine cables
Submarine cable development brings together advanced physics, marine technology and engineering to create truly amazing pieces of networking infrastructure.
Tag: history
An RFC a day reveals an Internet in the making
To mark the 50th anniversary of the first RFC, Darius Kazemi revisited the first 365 RFCs — one for each day of 2019.
THSeries: Mapping Thailand’s past, present and future Internet
Maps are widely used in our lives and for good reason: they tell us where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going.
What do we know about an IP address?
Guest Post: There’s a lot more to an IP addresses than merely being an identifier.
Happy Birthday BGP
How has this critically important routing protocol fared over these 30 years and what are its future prospects?
KRSeries: The man who introduced the Internet to Asia
Kilnam Chon played a large part in South Korea’s – and the Asia Pacific region’s – adoption of the Internet.
DNS: A look back at a look back
Guest Post: Looking back on past forecasts for the DNS exposes how far it has evolved from its preliminary tasks.
Looking back at the Internet’s past decade
What’s new, what’s old and what’s been forgotten in the past ten years of the Internet’s evolution?
Opinion: In defence of NATs
Opinion: Rather than being condemned, perhaps we should appreciate the role that NATs play in the evolution of the architecture of the Internet?
Can a non-US history give another perspective to Internet development?
Guest Post: the History of Internet Resources Management in Japan – Focusing on Domain Name and IP Address has been published in English.