A Brief History Of The Internet By default,
             any definitive history of the Internet must
             be short, since the Internet (in one form or
             another) has only been in existence for
             less than 30 years. The first iteration of
             the Internet was launched in 1971 with a
             public showing in early 1972. This first
             network, known as ARPANET (Advanced
             Research Projects Agency NETwork) was
             very primitive by today's standards, but a
             milestone in computer communications.
             ARPANET was based upon the design
             concepts of Larry Roberts (MIT) and was
             fleshed out at the first ACM symposium,
             held in Gaithersburg, TN in 1966, although
             RFPs weren't sent out until mid 1968. The
             Department of Defense in 1969
             commissioned ARPANET, and the first node
             was created at the University of California
             in Los Angeles, running on a Honeywell
             DDP-516 mini-computer. The second node
             was established at Stanford University and
             launched on October first of the same year.
             On November 1, 1969, the third node was
             located at the University of California,
             Santa Barbara and the fourth was opened
             at the University of Utah in December. By
             1971 15 nodes were linked including BBN,
             CMU, CWRU, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, MIT,
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