jan 1, 1969 - ARPANET Connects
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- Under the direction of the US military, on 1969, ARPANET successfully connected four university computers. This was the first network.
- ARPANET allowed the users of each of the computers to send little packets of information to other. Before this, computers were largely separate machines that didn't share information or calculations. With ARPANET, the direct ancestor of the modern Internet, this would change.
- ARPANET, as the ancestor of the Internet, is revolutionary since it was the first network that connected us. With the ability to send information, our ability to learn collectively exponentially increased, and the pace of developments in computer science simply went off the charts, as we see in the Information Age today.
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