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#packetswitching — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. This Lost Women of Science podcast and transcript looks back at Sharla Perrine Boehm, the woman who first programmed a packet-switching network.

    scientificamerican.com/article

    #Women #Science #Internet #PacketSwitching

  2. “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 <abc.net.au/news/2026-02-16/ai->

  3. 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...

    news.lavx.hu/article/debunking

    #news #tech #InternetHistory #ARPANET #PacketSwitching

  4. Getting ready to listen to human voices, transmitted over TCP/IP.

    #PacketSwitching