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Paul Baron
he had an idea of a network with no central command that if one point was destroyed then the others could still communicate -
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Jon Postel
DNS invented was invented by jon Postel -
Elliott/NRDC 401 Computer MkI
one of first electronic computers -
ARPA formed
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was formed by Dwight D. Eisenhower -
The first paper on packet switching
Leonard Kleinrock published the first paper on packet switching in 1961 -
The first book on packet switching
Leonard Kleinrock first book on packet switching in 1964 -
2 computers connected
first time 2 computers connected done by Lawrence Roberts -
Lawrence Roberts and Leonard Kleinrock
Leonard Kleinrock liked Paul Baron's idea of a distributed network and wrote a paper and book about packet switching and
later Lawrence Roberts was intrigued by leonard Kleinrock's book and paper about using packets instead of circuits in 1966 he went to DARPA to develop this concept. -
the web was started
Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web -
ISPs were started
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nsfnet officially replaced arpanet
In 1990 NSFNET officially replaced arpanets -
nsfnet shut down
NSFNET shut down and handed everything over to ISPs