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Vennevar Bush publishes paper on memex
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U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik, first artificial earth satellite. In response, U.S.
forms the Advanced Research Projects
Agency (ARPA) within the Department of
Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to
the military
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J.C.R. Licklider publishes
his landmark paper, "Man-Computer Symbiosis"
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Leonard Kleinrock, MIT:
"Information Flow in Large Communication Nets". First paper on
packet-switching theory
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J.C.R. Licklider & W. Clark,
MIT: "On-Line Man Computer Communication".Galactic Network concept
encompassing distributed social interactions
Licklider becomes the founding directory for ARPA's Information Processing
Techniques Office and the behavioral science division.
Paul Baran, RAND: "On Distributed
Communications Networks"
Packet-switching
networks; no single outage point
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Licklider funds Engelbarts new "Augmentation Research Center" at Stanford.
President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
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Paul Baran gets funding from U.S. Air
Force to experiment with a block switching network to protect communications
during an nuclear war. However, he withdrew his proposal when the project
was shifted to military managers.
ARPA sponsors study on "cooperative network of time-sharing computers"
TX-2 at MIT Lincoln Lab and Q-32 at System Development Corporation (Santa Monica,
CA) are directly linked (without packet switches)
(more of the story...)
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Larry Roberts, MIT: "Towards a
Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers"
First ARPANET plan.
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ACM Symposium on Operating Principles Plan presented for a packet-switching
network First design paper on ARPANET published by
Lawrence G. Roberts
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Middlesex, England develops NPL Data Network under D.
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ARPA mails out 140 Requests for Proposals to prospective contractors to build
the first four IMPs.
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