1. Living in the Pre-Internet Age
... large-scale demonstration of the feasibility of packet switching. The successful use of packet switching in the ARPANET and in other early networks paved the way for the technique's widespread adoption, and at the end of the twentieth century packet switching continued to be the dominant networking practice"(Abbate, 1999). In 1968 the PS-network was presented to the Advanced Research ... ARPANET ceased to exist and turned into public domain, and The World (world.std.com) came on-line, becoming the first commercial provider of Internet dial-up access. The World Wide Web (WWW) was introdu...
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