THE LIVING ARCHIVE

From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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PPP and the Dial-Up Protocol That Brought the Internet Home

PPP standardized how computers carried IP and other network protocols across point-to-point links, adding negotiation and configuration that made dial-up Internet access easier to deploy across heterogeneous systems.

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