Hannah Fry looks back at 75 years of computing history to reveal the UK's lead role in developing the technologies we rely on today
Hannah Fry looks back at 75 years of computing history to reveal the UK's lead role in developing the technologies we rely on today
Long before the heroics of the world wide web, the internet was born out of a mixture of American ambition and British thrift. Packet Switching was the name coined by Welsh computer scientist Donald Davies in an effort to link the early computers in the labs of the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington.
Presented by Hannah Fry
Produced by Alex Mansfield.