History of Computers and the Birth of the Internet

I've been reading "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" by Hafner&Lyon which tells the story of ARPA and how the network to connect all the different mainframes in universities came to being, which then would be the foundation of the Internet. It's written in a novel fashion and once you start flipping the pages it's hard to put it down!

There are mentions of many of the first huge computing machines that were built in various Universities and Corporations, such as the TX-2 in MIT Lincoln Labs, Q-32 that was transferred by the Airforce from SDC to ARPA, etc. So being the researcher I am :) I had to track these beasts and learn more about them. I shall write a separate article about these in the near future.

Computer History Museum in California (History Timeline)