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How Britain got its first internet connection
The resulting network was called Arpanet and the first packets of data traversed the network in September 1969. At this time the computing industry was dominated by a few large companies ...
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Lawrence Roberts, ARPANET Engineer Whose Work Led To The Modern Internet, Dies At 81
Lawrence Roberts, acknowledged as the designer of ARPANET, the precursor of ... was his decision to build distributed control of the network so that programming, software, and data are spread ...
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5 inventions you didn't know came from DARPA
DARPA created the ARPANET, which was the first network of computers, which was later transitioned to the civilian internet. And that really cemented DARPA’s reputation as sort of an innovation ...
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The ARPANET Of Things And CMU’s History Of Networked Soda Machines
When the computer science department of Carnegie Mellon University expanded in the 1970s, this created a massive issue for certain individuals who now found that they had to walk quite a distance ...
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What is the internet?
To solve this problem, ARPA created a network of computers, which they called ARPANET. Realising how useful ARPANET was, other organisations built their own networks. However, these individual ...