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Lawrence Roberts and Thomas Merrill connected the TX-2 computer in Mass to the Q-32 in California using a low-speed dial-up telephone line, creating the first wide-area computer network. This resulted in the findings of time-shared computers working together to run programs, and that Kleinrock's packet switching theory worked. -
President Dwight Eisenhower formed the ARPA, bringing in scientists to help the military use technology to stay ahead of enemies. Lawrence Roberts created computer networks at ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), also working with Leonard Kleinrock. After the packing-switching network was developed, Kleinrock used it to send messages to another website, and ARPA was created. -
Leonard Kleinrock published a book on using packets rather than circuits, which would influence Lawrence Roberts and spark an idea of computer networking. -
J.C.R. Licklider came up with a series of memos that discussed a globally interconnected computer system that could access data and programs. -
Ray Tomlinson, a computer programmer, introduced the idea that the @ symbol should be the indication of a message with a destination. This was first used to distinguish between the individual user name and their computer. This started the network of communicating, gossiping, and making friends. -
ARPANET expanded to 30 academic, military, and research institutions connecting various locations from Hawaii to the UK. A new set of rules was put in place for handling data packages, so Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf created a method called Transmission Control Protocol (TCP/IP), allowing computers to speak the same language. This then grew into a global interconnected network known as the Internet. youtube