COMMENTARY--Fear of perpetuating a monopoly was cited by Senator Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) as reason to oppose the Tauzin-Dingell Broadband bill. Co-sponsored by House Representatives Bill Tauzin (R-LA ...

Do they teach networking history classes yet? Or is it still too soon? I was reading [Al]’s first installment of the Forgotten Internet series, on UUCP. The short summary is that it was a system for ...

When I was first struggling to learn about computer networking standards 100 years ago, a friend who happened to be big in the IEEE boiled the whole thing down for me with a light bulb analogy. “You ...