ARPANET
- Date
- 1969 · confidence high
- Place
- UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States (first node); BBN, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Credited to
- ARPA (Larry Roberts, Bob Taylor), BBN (IMP), UCLA (Kleinrock) and SRI
- Field
- Communication
What it is
First operational packet-switching network, connecting UCLA and SRI on 29 October 1969. It was the embryo of the internet.
What it led to
- The internet and the information society
- Email and remote scientific collaboration
- Military funding of research as a technological driver of the Cold War