The story of the internet

... • At the four host sites, the teams had even less time to build their parts of the network. And some of the team members had no experience of this kind of work. Vint Cerf was one of them. ... communicate. In the set of rules that they invented in 1973, they used the word &apos ;Internet& apos; for the first time. It meant 'a network of networks'. 2...

... for you.’ The youth went with the waggoner, and in the evening they arrived at an inn where they wished to pass the night. Then at the entrance of the parlour the youth again said quite loudly: ... riches. The youth drew out the axe and let him go. The old man led him back into the castle, and in a cellar showed him three chests full of gold. Of these,’ said he,...

... innovator of those days had been made to feel the weight of their hands, without in the least knowing, or even suspecting, whence the blow proceeded. They were the head and front of the junto of oligarchs ... probably the handsomest man at the Provincial bar. Several other members of the legal profession, all of them more or less widely known in the forensic...

... mountain on the moon is equal to the distance between the lines: we then know the number of revolutions of the micrometer screw which is equivalent to the length of the shadow. The number of miles ... from the Sun 363 72. Bredichin's Theory of Comets' Tails 366 73. Tails of the Comet of 1858 367 74. The Comet of 1744 368 75. The Path of...

... agency for the learning of the animals, and for the supplementing of their instincts, is Imitation. The sight of certain movements on the part of the adult animals, or the hearing of their cries, ... by the parents, none of the effects of use or disuse of their limbs, none of the tendencies or habits of action, in short, none of the changes wrou...

... he ran. There were thousands of entries. Then the other notebook told the date he played someone a tennis match, the name of the someone, and the set scores. Hugo’s a tennis pro. Then there were ... and the other leg is bent at the knee, and the calf is horizontal to the ground. His sink is a miracle of detritus. There were a couple of cans of Edge Gel shaving c...