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To: eims2000 who wrote (65328)	12/31/2000 2:06:10 PM
From: BenThair	Respond to of 122087

The Internet was first demonstrated in 1977 out of an effort to link the U.S. Defense Department's ARPAnet and various other radio- and satellite-based networks. The ARPAnet was developed to enable divisions of the military and key researchers, often located at U.S. universities, to communicate with one another and to exchange information critical to the U.S. military's development efforts. Communication of this early internetwork occurred between a source computer and a destination computer. The original RAND formula of three-way packet networking was demonstrated in 1977, using a mobile packet radio, much like one that might be used in a combat zone. This demonstration sent a message for a total of 94,000 miles to the University of Southern California and ended up up nicely assembled on a DEC KA-10 computer. In the late 80's the National Science Foundation funded a nation wide network named NSFNET to connect super computer centers in the U.S. It used the same networking ideas as the ARPAnet. The time of a federally provided general purpose backbone network for the research community came to a close in April of 1995. Its roots stem from early ARPA research on packet switching and its development of the TCP/IP protocol suite, which the NSF elected for its net in the 80's instead of a strong tendency towards GOSIP ISO protocols and support for X.25. The TCP/IP selection for the NSFNET resulted in a strong acceptance worldwide. ARPAnet had slowly been replaced by the Internet in the 90's and in the process became the first dinosaur in the history of information networks. Oh well who really cares.