Internet History
1957 : US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
In response to the launch of USSR's Sputnik
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To design a way to communicate in an incident proof manner : not centralized.
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To avoid ARPA's Head having too many keyboards on his desk
60s : Start of research
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Cooperative network of time-sharing computers
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Packet-switching networks; no single outage point
69 : ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research into networking
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First Request for Comment (RFC): "Host Software" by Steve Crocker
(7 April)