It feels appropriate Web Summit, a conference for about 70,000 technology startups and investors, is being held the week we mark 50 years since delivery of the first message across what was the beginning of the internet, the ARPAnet.
That first message between US scientists in California has morphed into the internet enabling billions of people to access the sort of websites and near-frictionless communications of Whatsapp and other voice-over-internet-protocol services on mobile devices.
The ARPAnet came only a dozen…
