Computing Britain - Connected Thinking

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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.

Published on Monday, 16th November 2015.

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