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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (138)	12/14/1998 9:23:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 242

"Historically, the Internet began with packet switching projects in the late 1960s, most notably the Advanced Research Project Agency's ARPANET. During the '70's this network grew to support many organizations in the Department of Defense and other governmental agencies. It also began to support university and research organizations. The Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) was developed as a packet protocol that would allow connections across a variety of physical mediums including satellite connections, wireless packet radio, telephone links, and so on. It was included in a popular release of the Berkeley Standard UNIX, which was freely distributed through the university community. This was a rather loose development of technology, and in no sense a clear network at all. In 1985, the National Science Foundation funded several national supercomputer centers . . . Cornell . . . University of Illinois . . . Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center . . . San Diego Supercomputer Center . . . Jon von Neumann Center at Princeton . . . The NSF desired to make these supercomputer centers available to the research community in universities across the country. Many state and regional universities had already developed local and regional networks and some were even TCP/IP based." From "The Internet - What Is It?" Jack Rickard, Winter 1998 Boardwatch.