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Memos
"The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his "Galactic Network" concept." - http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet -
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The Book
The first book about the subject was published in 1964 by Leonard Kleinrock at MIT. He also convinced Roberts of the theoretical feasibility of communications using packets rather than circuits, which was a major step along the path towards computer networking. -
TX-2
The TX-2 was a transistor-based computer using the then-huge amount of 64K 36-bit words of core memory. The TX-2 became operational in 1958. Because of its then powerful capabilities Ivan Sutherland's revolutionary Sketchpad program was developed for and ran on the TX-2. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TX-2 -
DARPA
In late 1966 Roberts went to DARPA to develop the computer network concept and quickly put together his plan for the "ARPANET", witch is a form of pocket switching service -
ARPANET
the DARPA funded community had refined the overall structure and specifications for the ARPANET, an RFQ was released by DARPA for the development of one of the key components, the packet switches called Interface Message Processors (IMP's). -
Network Control Protocol
"Host-to-Host protocol and other network software. In December 1970 the Network Working Group (NWG) working under S. Crocker finished the initial ARPANET Host-to-Host protocol, called the Network Control Protocol (NCP). As the ARPANET sites completed implementing NCP during the period 1971-1972, the network users finally could begin to develop applications". http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet -
privatized
"By 1985, Internet was already well established as a technology supporting a broad community of researchers and developers, and was beginning to be used by other communities for daily computer communications". http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet