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  1. Last year, I drew a map of the ARPANET for an event featuring retro and vintage computing. It is based on various previously published maps from 1981, but has been redrawn using a vector graphics software. In addition, I marked computers with DEC PDP-10, PDP-11, and VAX architecture to show their role in the early Internet (there were PiDPs and some descriptions about them as exhibits). It was printed as a DIN A1 poster. Here is the result as a 4k JPEG file. #PDP #PDP11 #arpa #vintagecomputing

  2. Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Energy Lasts for 100,000 Years but Particle Accelerators Could Slash That Timeline to a Few Centuries

    Particle accelerators are being optimized to both transmute nuclear waste into safer forms and harness it for electricity.…
    #Nuclear #acceleratorphysics #ARPA-E #cleanenergy #nuclear #NUCLEARENERGY #nucleartechnology #nucleartransmutation #NuclearWaste #particleaccelerators #radioactivewaste
    europesays.com/2814996/

  3. ‪While on the subject of historic technology, did you know the earliest predecessor of Wi-Fi, satellite data, and even Ethernet was a protocol called ALOHA, developed at the University of Hawaii to connect distant campuses? ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5 #alohanet #wireless #uhf #1g #gsm #arpa #ethernet