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ARPANET The head of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Robert Taylor, with Larry Roberts from MIT started working on Licklider’s idea. After hard work, they connected two computers successfully between the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute on October 29, 1969. This network was called ARPANET. The ARPANET developed rapidly and more than two hundred computers were connected by 1981.

SCIENCE FACTS

● ● Today, about a dozen countries lack regular Internet connections. The “unconnected” are mostly blocked by their governments. ● ● Donald Davies invented the concept of “packet switching” at the UK National Physical Laboratory in the early 1960s.

Internet A number of various independent networks like CSNET, BITNET, and JANET were created in the US and United Kingdom until the early 1980s. By 1987, a large number of independent networks joined and formed a huge network called the INTERNET.

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