Internet’s Speed Increases As It Turns 35 Years Old

September 7, 2004 | Source: Washington Post

Teams from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CERN have sent 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes across 16,000 kilometers of computer networks at roughly 6.63 gigabits per second on the super high-speed Internet2 network, used for education and research.