COMMUNICATIONS

Just like any organisation relies on communication between its people, so an organisation that has more than a few computers needs those computers to be able to communicate. This is almost taken for granted now, especially over the Internet, but the development of the technology that enables PCs to communicate one with another is in some ways the definitive story of computing.

Serial Communications

Serial communications can be slow, but here you can see how they're the base from which other communication methods have developed. >>

Digital Communications

Broadband communications can happen because of digital communication innovations, described here.>>

Networking

Learn how the development of networks is what has led to the Internet, and a good deal of modern computing.>>