By Nick Heath, 2 September 2008 11:24
See the technology that gave birth to the internet - packet switching.
Forty years after packet switching was invented, silicon.com took a wander through the history of its birthplace: the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Bushy Park, Middlesex.
This is the Pilot Ace computer at NPL in 1950: one of the first modern computers in the world and the first in London.
Delve deeper into packet switching here.
Photo credit: NPL



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