Advanced Research Projects Agency Network ARPAnet

ARPANET launches The Advanced Research Projects Agency starts ARPANET, which is the precursor to the Internet. UCLA and Stanford University are the first institutions to become networked. 

ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network... 

In 1969, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (now the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) of the U.S. Department of Defense proposed a method to fink together the computers at several universities to share computational data via networks. This network became known as ARPANET, which was the precursor of the Internet. As a result, electronic mail (e-mail) was developed, along with protocols for sending information over phone lines in packets. The protocols for the transmission of these packets of data came to be known as Transmission Control... 

The international data network Internet connects over 10,000 computer networks with about 1.5 million computer terminals and 10 million users. The network has no central organisation. It has been built up since the late sixties, starting with the US Defense Administration s ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency). Later, it became the National Research and Education Network providing data exchange for American scientists. 

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