#packetswitching — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #packetswitching, aggregated by home.social.
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This Lost Women of Science podcast and transcript looks back at Sharla Perrine Boehm, the woman who first programmed a packet-switching network.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-programmer-whose-code-underpins-the-internet/
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“I had been #thinking about #AI as both a return to #labour that is owned — a part of #capital — rather than #employed, about two centuries after the abolition of human slavery, and simultaneously as a collapse in the price of intelligence.
The price of #intelligence is falling towards zero in the same way that the price of #communication fell with the invention of #PacketSwitching and TCP/IP. That is, the #Internet.” — Alan Kohler
#ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar / #revolution <https://abc.net.au/news/2026-02-16/ai-jobs-fake-breakthrough-resignation-chat-gpt-claude/106346440>
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Debunking the Nuclear Myth: The True Origins of the Internet
For decades, a pervasive myth has suggested that the internet was designed to survive a nuclear attack. However, the truth is far less dramatic and rooted in the collaborative spirit of academia rathe...
https://news.lavx.hu/article/debunking-the-nuclear-myth-the-true-origins-of-the-internet
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Thought I would share about my formal employer who I would recommend you work for! The National Physical Laboratory They have several sites across UK. #devops #Jobs #software #engineering #PacketSwitching #security #TrustworthyAI #data #DataScience #azure #NetworkEngineering #RadioAccessNetwork #CommSec #telecoms #security #stonewall #LGBTQIA #disability #science #uk #RemoteWork
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Data Networks decades before the Internet (via Vint Cerf on the internet-history mailing list). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkwWZ6ujy0
#internet
#internethistory
#computerscience
#packetswitching
#arpanet
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Getting ready to listen to human voices, transmitted over TCP/IP.