The Internet

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one of the Rand thinkers on the project, conceived the idea for a new kind of communications network that wasn't organized point-to-point, but instead was set up more like a fishnet. He believed this structure could allow information to find its own path through the network even if a section had been destroyed. His eleven-volume report for the Pentagon was eventually shelved, but younger engineers realized that he had hit on an essential idea. Although Baran's ideas were overlooked at that time, it later influenced the design used to create a small, decentralized network connecting computers at four university campuses around the United States. This tiny seed eventually grew into which now consists of a huge network-of-networks, millions of nodes strong, which today covers the entire globe. Shortly thereafter ,under the leadership of the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA), grows from a paper architecture into a small network (ARPANET) intended to ...

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