1. History of Internet
... Projects Agency) awarded a contract to BBN (Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.) for ARPANET to build IMPs (Interface Message Processors. Four years later, Ray Tomlinson of BBC launched the first e-mail. Also in 1972 ARPA was renamed DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.) To communicate among host computers on the same network ... free electronic text, similar to a fax. E-mail itself is free, once you pay for an on-line provider service. E-mail can send pictures, graphs, text, charts, software, can be edited, saved, changed and used again. E-mail can be sent to one user, by typing ...
- Word Count: 2631
- Approx Pages: 11
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School