Interface Message Processor

Interface Message Processor

Update: 2019-09-23
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Arpanet was a computer network developed in the 1960s that paved the way for today's internet. At its heart was the Interface Message Processor: a massive, heavily armoured box containing the technology that made it possible. Tim Harford takes a look inside.
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Interface Message Processor

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