What is the history on Internet communication services?
1957 The USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite. In response,the United States forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within theDepartment of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military. Backbones: None – Hosts: None 1962 RAND Paul Baran, of the RAND Corporation (a government agency), was commissioned by the U.S. Air Force to do a study on how it could maintain its command and control over its missiles and bombers, after a nuclear attack. This was to be a military research network that could survive a nuclear strike, decentralized so that if any locations (cities) in the U.S. were attacked, the military could still have control of nuclear arms for a counter-attack. Baran’s finished document described several ways to accomplish this. His final proposal was a packet switched network. “Packet switching is the breaking down of data into datagrams or packets that are labeled to indicate the origin and the destinati
