Computer Weekly

Vintage rail freight system showcases 50-year-old innovation

A system from national rail operator, British Rail in 1975, used distributed computing and a 400km data network to track freight ...

Science history: First computer-to-computer message lays the foundation for the internet, but it crashes halfway through — Oct. 29, 1969

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...