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Arpanet

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Arpanet
The first digital network that utilized packet switching, which is the transmission of data, regardless of content, in manageable chunks called packets. This was a revolutionary technology and ultimately led to the creation of the modern Internet. It was developed in the 1960s by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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The massive computers crashed, leaving "LO" as the first message sent via ARPANET, the Internet's predecessor.
The Internet turns 40 by New York Times Upfront
Forty years ago this October, two computers connected to form the ARPANET and launch the world's first successful packet- switched wide area computer network.
IEE COMMEMORATES THE EVENT THAT LAID GROUNDWORK FOR INTERNET by Networks Update
Now that doesn't seem similar at all to the internet that we know today, but it was the first node in ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), the computer network that gave birth to the internet.
Internet turns 40 today... or does it? by International Business Times - US ed.
 
 
 
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