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World Service,28 Sep 2019,10 mins

Interface Message Processor

50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

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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.

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