Networks were seen as a rather arcane and dull area in computer science. Then along came the internet, and everything changed for ever. The internet is actually an amalgam of a number of disparate technologies that evolved at just the right time, indeed several of the key technologies were far from optimal.

In this lecture we will look at a bit of internet history, show how it works now and look towards the future.

A lecture by Richard Harvey, 20 April

The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
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