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Interface Message Processor

Sep 23, 201910 minTranscript available on Metacast
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Episode description

Arpanet was a computer network developed in the 1960s that paved the way for today's internet. At its heart was the Interface Message Processor: a massive, heavily armoured box containing the technology that made it possible. Tim Harford takes a look inside.