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October 29, 1969: Happy 40th Birthday to a Radical Idea!

On the evening of October 29, 1969 the first data travelled between two nodes of the ARPANET, a key ancestor of the Internet. Even more important, this was one of the first big trials of a then-radical...

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Happy 20th Birthday to the public Web!

This month marks 20 years since the Web’s public announcement in several online forums and the release of the WWW code library, libWWW. The library was a kind of "roll your own" tool kit that gave...

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Going Places: A History of Google Maps with Street View

Choose a spot on a map and you are there — immersed in a panoramic view you can move and zoom. Since 2007, Google Maps with Street View has transformed our ideas about going places, from faraway lands...

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CHM Fellow Douglas C. Engelbart

His goal was building systems to augment human intelligence. His group prototyped much of modern computing (and invented the mouse) along the way   The better we get at getting better, the faster we...

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