How the internet and Wi-Fi work: A guide to connections, data and the cloud

Your internet service provider (ISP) brings the internet into your home through a modem. A router then converts that signal ...

What exactly is the internet? A computer scientist explains what it is and how it came to be

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...
Ars Technica

How the UK was connected to the Internet for the first time

British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of 86, after a nearly 50-year career at UCL. A few years before he died, he was ...
The Norman Transcript

BUSINESS COLUMN: Privacy and computers should go together

Last week, we looked at the possibility of privacy on the internet, and the sad state of current affairs where seemingly every major Internet company wants to deny us that possibility. No matter what ...
The Conversation

How Britain got its first internet connection – by the late pioneer who made it happen

University College London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of ...
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World's first operating system for quantum computers unveiled — it can be used to manage a future quantum internet

Scientists have developed the world's first operating system designed for quantum computers, which could let quantum computers connect with each other, thereby paving the way for a quantum internet.