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Internet ideas sparked
J.C.R. Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global network of computers in 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in late 1962 to head the work to develop it. -
How to set the internet connection up
Leonard Kleinrock of MIT and later UCLA developed the theory of packet switching, which was to form the basis of Internet connections. -
Wide are networking
Lawrence Roberts of MIT connected a Massachusetts computer with a California computer over dial-up telephone lines. It showed the feasibility of wide area networking, but also showed that the telephone line's circuit switching was inadequate. -
Wide area networking
Lawrence Roberts of MIT connected a Massachusetts computer with a California computer over dial-up telephone lines. It showed the feasibility of wide area networking, but also showed that the telephone line's circuit switching was inadequate. -
Kleinrock's packet switching theory confirmed
Kleinrocks theory was proved to work. -
DARPA, APRANET
Roberts moved over to DARPA in 1966 and developed his plan for ARPANET. -
Internet-APRANET
The Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which initially connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern US. -
Internet-APRANET
The Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which initially connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah). -
Internet-APRANET
The Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which initially connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah). -
E-mail
E-mail was adapted for ARPANET by Ray Tomlinson of BBN. He picked the @ symbol from the available symbols on his teletype to link the username and address. -
Connection through mainframes
BITNET (Because It's Time Network) connected IBM mainframes around the educational community and the world to provide mail services. -
Interface
the first really friendly interface to the Internet was developed at the University of Minnesota. The University wanted to develop a simple menu system to access files and information on campus through their local network.