This Podcast is intended to be an interesting starting point, to stimulate students into further research and discussion on the theme of the history of the Internet and its development.
It is comprised of the 10 themed tracks below, each about three minutes long. The track transcript is visible when playing and also as a link under each theme, as are the associated sources. Tracks can be downloaded by right clicking "Download" and selecting "save target as".
Can you beat our games? Explode equipment to see what's inside, hear the changing sounds of telecommunications, see how telecommunications designs have changed over time or send an e-postacard.
History of telecommunications in the UK to be digitised in New Connections project - BT Archives, Coventry University and The National Archives to put key photographs and documents online. Find out more...
Take a trip down memory lane with extracts of the interviews which have been recorded as part of the Connected Earth oral history programme.
100 years of automatic switching!
In 1912 the GPO installed Britain's first automatic telephone exchange in Epsom.
