When Tim Berners-Lee arrived at CERN, Geneva’s celebrated European Particle Physics Laboratory in 1980, he’d been hired to help replace the control systems for several of the lab’s particle ...
Out with the old, in with the new. Communication is all about connecting people and information, and we’ve come a long way from telegraphy and operator-assisted telephones. Digital telecommunications ...
The People's Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age, by Robert MacDougall, University of Pennsylvania Press, 344 pages, $55 Since the early days of the telegraph, North ...
The dimensions of the collapse in the telecommunications industry during the past two years have been staggering. Half a million people have lost their jobs. In that time, the Dow Jones communication ...