Brief history of computer network
Brief history of computer network
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Computer networking history
Updated: 09/12/ by Computer Hope
Listed below are the important events in history relating to a networking, including release dates for network technologies.
The idea of ARPANET, one of the earliest computer networks, was proposed by Leonard Kleinrock in , in his paper titled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets."
The term "packet" was coined by Donald Davies in , to describe data sent between computers over a network.
ARPANET was one of the first computer networks to use packet switching.
Development of ARPANET started in , and the first two nodes, UCLA and SRI (Standford Research Institute), were connected, officially starting ARPANET in
The first RFC surfaced in April , as a document to define and provide information about computer communications, network protocols, and procedures.
The first network switch and IMP (Interface Message Processor) was sent to UCLA on August 29, It was used to send the first data t