1. The History Of The Internet And World Wide Web
... by setting up an actual node with 40 terminals. The test showed the network to be a stable and robust communications system, and many skeptics were converted. The InterNetwork Working Group (INWG) was created to begin discussions for a common protocol and Vinton Cerf, who was involved with UCLA ARPANET, was chosen as the first chairman (Cerf, 1997). This in turn led ... to the development of packet switching technologies in other countries. The first international connection The Tymshare Corporation launched Tymnet in 1975, demonstrating ARPANET/Packet Radio Net/SATNET operation of Inte...
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