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In a legendary university network malfunction, an operating system update caused email servers to completely drop any digital message sent to a recipient…
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Before 'the cloud' became a ubiquitous marketing buzzword for massive remote servers, telecom engineers used a literal cloud shape to represent unknown…
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Every single device secretly maintains this special loopback address just to talk to itself. It is the digital equivalent of standing in front of a mirror and…
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The entire internet relies on a traffic control system invented by a woman who literally wrote a poem about it. Radia Perlman invented the Spanning Tree…
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Because running copper telephone wires between volcanoes is a logistical nightmare, researchers at the University of Hawaii in 1971 just built a radio-based…
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Hedy Lamarr, a glamorous Hollywood actress from the 1940s, co-invented a frequency-hopping technology meant to prevent enemies from jamming Allied torpedo…
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