What Happened on November 21st
November 21, 1969
First ARPANET Link Put Into Service
ARPANET was an early computer network developed by J.C.R. Licklider, Robert Taylor, and other researchers for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It connected a computer at UCLA with a computer at the Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA.
In 1973, the government commissioned Vinton Cerf and Robert E. Kahn to create a national computer network for military, governmental, and institutional use. The network used packet-switching, flow-control, and fault-tolerance techniques developed by ARPANET. Historians consider this worldwide network to be the origin of the Internet.
It is!
I had a family member by marriage who was involved in approving the funding for that...which is credible given he was Top Gun pilot with a long career in the Navy.
It was fun talking to him about it.