Network Museum

Once upon a time wide area networks (WANs) had topologies.  Lines (or sometimes waves) would connect the various nodes or sites.  And whe...

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a networking technology that routes cells (that is, small, fixed-size packets) of data from one end of a...

In the late 1970s Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs) emerged.  They were systems maintained by computer enthusiasts who referred to themselves as...

In years gone by the primary interface used for communicating data was the serial interface.  Its name stems from the fact that data was com...