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5 milestones that created the internet, 50 years after the first network message

  • Written by Scott Shackelford, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics; Director, Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance; Cybersecurity Program Chair, IU-Bloomington, Indiana University
5 milestones that created the internet, 50 years after the first network messageThis SDS Sigma 7 computer sent the first message over the predecessor of the internet in 1969.Andrew 'FastLizard4' Adams/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Fifty years ago, a UCLA computer science professor and his student sent the first message over the predecessor to the internet, a network called ARPANET.

5 milestones that created the internet, 50 years after the first network messageThe log page showing the connection from UCLA to...

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