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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. A plaque commemorating the ARPANET now stands in front of the Arlington, Va.,

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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And by mid-1971, program director Lawrence Roberts of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was becoming impatient with the slow pace at which ARPA-funded researchers were getting connected. One major problem was the cost and fragility of stringing a dedicated cable from every computer to every terminal. in December of the same year.

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