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Malta Telegraph Company
Malta Telegraph Company lays its first transatlantic cable between Malta and Porthcurno. -
Porthcurno becomes a hub
Porthcurno connects India, North and South America, South Africa, and Australia. -
180 million words
180 millions words pass through Porthcurno valley annually. -
ARPANET
An Interface Message Processor (IMP) at UCLA talked to an IMP at Stanford, signaling the internet's start. -
ARPANET International
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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Independant Computer Networks
Large companies and government agencies -like IBM, XEROX, and NASA- start their own independant networks. -
15 Networks on the Internet
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Standardization of TCP/IP
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. -
More than 400 networks on the Internet
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Backbones Begin
Some companies begin to build data-highways by installing special equipment on existing phone lines. -
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Investment in Fiber Optics
Companies like Sprint, MCI, PSI invested in fiber optic cable and began laying it inside the ground. -
MAE-East
Metropolitan Fiber Sysytems decides to build a hub to connect networks between one another, MAE-East (Metropolitan Area Exchange), located in Tysons Corner, Virginia. -
More than 35,000 networks on the Internet
