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Malta Telegraph Company lays its first transatlantic cable between Malta and Porthcurno.
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Porthcurno connects India, North and South America, South Africa, and Australia.
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180 millions words pass through Porthcurno valley annually.
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An Interface Message Processor (IMP) at UCLA talked to an IMP at Stanford, signaling the internet's start.
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The many locations of IMPs in the U.S. went international with the addition of a satellite link to University College London.
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Large companies and government agencies -like IBM, XEROX, and NASA- start their own independant networks.
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All host computers in the ARPANET and elsewhere were required to switch their "language" to Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. Now one network was able to connect to another. Creating and internetwork.
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Some companies begin to build data-highways by installing special equipment on existing phone lines.
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Companies like Sprint, MCI, PSI invested in fiber optic cable and began laying it inside the ground.
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Metropolitan Fiber Sysytems decides to build a hub to connect networks between one another, MAE-East (Metropolitan Area Exchange), located in Tysons Corner, Virginia.
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