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Dr. Kanchana Kanchanasut: On Connecting with Communities Dr. Kanchana Kanchanasut is defined by many firsts. She is well known for being the first Thai to establish email connection to the world. She was among the pioneers to establish Thailandâs research and education network. She registered the .th domain name, conducted Thailandâs first TV White Spaces trial, and started the first open and neutral Internet exchange point, BKNIX. TakNet, which she steers, is the first community network in Thailand. It is therefore no surprise that Dr. Kanchana exuded a quiet strength in the Zoom i...
Ray Tomlinson sends a message The brain behind using name@host for email use. Ray Tomlinson. Credit: Flickr. Nearly 50 years ago – sometime during the northern summer or autumn of 1971 – Ray Tomlinson sent the first network email. He didn’t invent electronic messaging, but he’s the person who came up with the name@host convention now used by billions of people every day: it was his idea to use the asperand, the @ symbol, as a separator. Tomlinson was a computer scientist working for Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), a company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which started out speciali...
Popular Mechanics From the world's first livestream, to llamas on the loose, to the colors of a dress that nobody could agree on, here are the most memorable moments since the inception of the Internet. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below ApicGetty Images We can't talk about great moments in internet history without talking about the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), which was founded in 1966. The massive network was the result of several different networks merging into one, with the idea that critical information could be shared "in the case of a catastrophic event."...