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Connected Thinking

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Mathematician Hannah Fry presents the story of packet switching, how computers learned to talk to each other.

Long before the heroics of the world wide web, the internet was born out of a mixture of American ambition and British thrift. Packet Switching was the name coined by Welsh computer scientist Donald Davies in an effort to link the early computers in the labs of the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington.

Presented by Hannah Fry

Produced by Alex Mansfield.

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Thu 17 Sep 2015 13:45
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    Hannah Fry reveals the UK's lead role in developing computer technologies we rely on today