In a subterranean labyrinth of aging pipes and bundled wires stretching for miles in every direction, these engineers are trying to make this city's densely packed communications networks less ...

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 ...

Remember when the internet was just nascent and telecoms were investing heavily in expanding and upgrading their network infrastructure to support internet connectivity? They laid fiber-optic cables, ...

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 ...