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  2. ARPANET - Wikipedia

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    Hence, the first two characters successfully transmitted over the ARPANET were "lo". [70] [71] [72] The first permanent ARPANET link was established on 21 November 1969, between the IMP at UCLA and the IMP at the Stanford Research Institute. By 5 December 1969, the initial four-node network was established.

  3. History of the Internet - Wikipedia

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    In 1989, the DECnet-based Space Physics Analysis Network (SPAN) and the TCP/IP-based NASA Science Network (NSN) were brought together at NASA Ames Research Center creating the first multiprotocol wide area network called the NASA Science Internet, or NSI. NSI was established to provide a totally integrated communications infrastructure to the ...

  4. List of Internet pioneers - Wikipedia

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    wrote the first full tcp specification in december 1974. with the support of darpa, early implementations of tcp (and ip later) were tested by bolt beranek and newman (bbn), stanford, and university college london during 1975. bbn built the first internet gateway, now known as a router, to link networks together.

  5. Packet switching - Wikipedia

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    The Internet2 community, in partnership with Qwest, built the first Internet2 Network, called Abilene, in 1998 and was a prime investor in the National LambdaRail (NLR) project. [246] In 2006, Internet2 announced a partnership with Level 3 Communications to launch a brand new nationwide network, boosting its capacity from 10 to 100 Gbit/s. [247]

  6. Cable television in the United States - Wikipedia

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    HBO was the first true premium cable (or "pay-cable") network as well as the first television network intended for cable distribution on a regional or national basis; however, there were notable precursors to premium cable in the pay-television industry that operated during the 1950s and 1960s (with a few systems lingering until 1980), as well ...

  7. History of telecommunication - Wikipedia

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    1927: First commercial radio-telephone service, U.K.–U.S. 1930: First experimental videophones; 1934: First commercial radio-telephone service, U.S.–Japan; 1936: World's first public videophone network; 1946: Limited capacity Mobile Telephone Service for automobiles; 1947: First working transistor (see History of the transistor)

  8. Internet - Wikipedia

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    The Internet standards describe a framework known as the Internet protocol suite (also called TCP/IP, based on the first two components.) This is a suite of protocols that are ordered into a set of four conceptional layers by the scope of their operation, originally documented in RFC 1122 and RFC 1123 .

  9. Computer network - Wikipedia

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    An ATM network interface in the form of an accessory card. A lot of network interfaces are built-in. A network interface controller (NIC) is computer hardware that connects the computer to the network media and has the ability to process low-level network information. For example, the NIC may have a connector for plugging in a cable, or an ...